[Pl-seminar] Reminder: Seminar TOMORROW: Julien Verlaguet & Brett Simmers: The Hack Experiment & HHVM, Then And Now

[Daniel Patterson]

Reminder that this is tomorrow, at 1:30PM.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 5:09 PM, Daniel Patterson <dbp at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> NUPRL Seminar presents a *dual seminar*
>
> Julien Verlaguet & Brett Simmers
> Facebook
> Host: Jan Vitek
>
> 1:30 - 3:00PM
> Tuesday, October 25
> Room 366 WVH (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/wand/directions.html)
>
>
> The Hack Experiment & HHVM, Then And Now
>
> Abstract:
>
> The Hack programming language developed at Facebook is an evolution of
> PHP. With tens of millions of lines of PHP code in house, the lack of type
> and poor IDE support were felt to be major threats to Facebook. We designed
> Hack gradually, adding feature at regular intervals and encouraging
> developers to adopt them in their code. This talk will touch on the design
> of the Hack language, its type system, the implementation of the type
> checker, and the social processes involved in converting 20 millions lines
> of untyped code to a rich type system.
>
> HHVM is an open source virtual machine for PHP and Hack programs. It was
> developed by Facebook but is also used by Wikipedia, Baidu, Etsy, and many
> others. This talk will discuss the history of the project, what goes on
> behind the scenes while executing your PHP code, and what we're currently
> working on.
>
> Bio:
>
> Julien Verlaguet is a OCaml programmer with a Master from Université
> Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. Before joining Facebook in 2011, he worked
> at Esterl technologies on verified compilation. At Facebook he designed the
> Hack programming language, a typed offspring of PHP and managed to convince
> the majority of developers in the company to add types to their code.
>
> Brett Simmers is a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he's been working
> on HHVM for the past five years. He primarily works on the internals of the
> JIT compiler and HHVM's profile-guided optimizations. Before joining
> Facebook he spent two years at VMware working on the Linux version of
> VMware Workstation.
>
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