Facebook Holds First Hack Developer Day

Last month, Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Hack, a programming language it developed for HHVM that integrates seamlessly with PHP. Earlier this week, the social network held its first-ever Hack Developer Day.

HackDeveloperDay650Last month, Facebook announced the open-sourcing of Hack, a programming language it developed for HHVM that integrates seamlessly with PHP. Earlier this week, the social network held its first-ever Hack Developer Day.

The social network said in a post on its engineering blog that 150 developers attended the event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., and more than 2,000 people viewed the live stream of Hack Developer Day, adding that copies of the presentations are available via the Hack Developer Day Facebook group, and videos are available via a YouTube playlist.

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