🆚 Hack vs. Perl
- 📈 Perl is much more popular than Hack.
- 🌍 Perl is more popular in all countries.
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About
Hack is a 
PHP-based programming language designed for the 
HHVM virtual machine and developed by Meta to build large-scale web applications with improved type safety.
It introduces gradual static typing with features such as nullable, generic, and shape types, async and await for concurrent programming, collections with strict typing, lambda expressions, attributes for metadata, and a type checker that runs alongside code execution.
Perl is a high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Chile in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Hong Kong in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
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