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#63 Hack: Typing PHP at Facebook Scale

Julien Verlaguet

Aug 7th 2026   |  106 min
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Julien is one of the creators of Hack, a language developed by Facebook to introduce types into PHP. In this episode he talks in depth about the semantics of PHP, and all the ways that it is inhenrently broken, process of development of Hack, the design decisions, the kind of guarantees that could be enforced to PHP and that developers should care about.

This episode was brought to you by SkipLabs: Julien’s company to make reactive programming robust and seamless!

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