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I wonder how this will affect major websites outside of Facebook that rely on HHVM, such as Wikipedia. They made a big announcement when they switched to HHVM in early 2015. Have they moved over to PHP 7 yet?


They are planning to move to PHP7 largely because of this change but also since PHP7 closed the performance gap: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T176370


A reminder, HHVM is not Hack. you can run both type of scripts with either <?php or <?hh. Wikpedia is <?php because its underlying MediaWiki is PHP and used outside by many companies. As such a migration of Wikipedia to PHP 7 is probably mostly an ops and not a software task.




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