On 12 May 2026 00:51:08 BST, Seifeddine Gmati <[email protected]> wrote: >Quoting Matt Brown: "I have now been writing Hack (Facebook fork of >PHP) full-time for almost five years — alongside hundreds of other >backend engineers at Slack — and it’s obvious to everyone around me >that erased generics are a good idea."
Just to bang this drum one more time, because I haven't seen you acknowledge it: Hack ships with a tool to statically enforce generic types before erasing them. <https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/getting-started/tools/> > hh_client: this is the command line interface for Hack's static analysis; it > is needed to verify that a project is valid Hack, and is used to find errors > in your programs When people talk about their experience with erased generics in Hack, they're talking about their experience of universal use of that tool. I don't think you can apply that experience to a situation where the majority of users of the language have no such tool. Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]
