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bos on March 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hack: a new programming language for HHVM

It's more accurate to say that the point is to let you use dynamic typing where that makes sense, and static typing in the many cases where it helps. Hence "best of both".

Touche on March 20, 2014 [–]

This comment seems to indicate that you can't use dynamic typing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437907

sanxiyn on March 21, 2014 | [–]

My understanding is that you can use dynamic typing, but not dynamic code generation. Not the same thing.

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