Facebook's PHP dialect makes inroads among popular programming languages

Hack, Facebook's PHP dialect, is gaining popularity, but don't expect it to rival PHP anytime soon.In this month's Tiobe index of language popularity, Hack cracked the top 50 for the first time, coming in 47th place albeit with a rating of 0.325 percent. Still, showing up on the index means that developers are starting to take notice.[ The art of programming moves rapidly. InfoWorld helps you navigate what’s running hot and going cold. | Keep up with main topics in programming with InfoWor