In typical Facebook fashion, the new language is called Hack, and it already drives almost all of the company's website -- a site that serves more than 1.2 billion people across the globe.

Hack is basically an extension of the PHP language with built-in static typing, a feature found in more traditional programming languages such as C/C++ and Java, O’Sullivan said.

Facebook engineers Bryan O’Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other. Working alongside a handful of others ...

The German interior ministry said on Monday it had no indication that the vulnerability known as Log4j in a library for the Java programming language was used to make successful hacking attacks on ...

There is a clever combination of language and platform development rolling out of Facebook engineering in the form of HHVM and the Hack programming language—and what is working for production users of ...

Hack is basically an extension of the PHP language with built-in static typing, a feature found in more traditional programming languages such as C/C++ and Java, O’Sullivan said.