Facebook has decided to open-source a piece of software that is designed to write code.
(HHVM is a virtual machine designed to execute programs in Hack and PHP.)
Weve been using Hack Codegen at Facebook for a while.
We realized early on that we would need a good library to generate code, wrote Marcu.
This is the need that motivated us to write this library.
The lack of scaling facilities motivated the engineering team to work to complete the Hack Codegen project.
I think Codegen is a valuable new tool that can help developer productivity in the right prefs.
Newer technologies are constantly innovating around these issues.
source: www.techworm.net
