9 engineers on Hacker News describe using HHVM first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“at Wikimedia we literally halved the CPU load when we switched”
endorse · production · hashar · 2023-09-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“HHVM on FreeBSD was a joke.”
regret · production · ComputerGuru · 2017-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“moving from PHP 5.x to HHVM gave us more capacity and over two years we reduced by 15% the number of MediaWiki application servers”
endorse · production · 2 yr · _joe · 2017-05-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I don't regret moving to HHVM. ... My only 2 complaints are that Postgres and zeroMQ drivers are 3rd party extensions.”
mixed · production · no1youknowz · 2015-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Laravel on HHVM for the backend and a mix of jQuery and React for the front end and couldn't be happier.”
endorse · production · ssiddharth · 2014-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using HHVM in production for a few weeks now and all I can say is I'm very happy with the results.”
endorse · production · q_no · 2014-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I managed to get it up and running, but the HHVM logs were full of notices and it finally bombed out after several requests”
mixed · production · Jgrubb · 2013-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use HHVM in prod. I love it, well done :)”
endorse · production · girvo · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The toolchain for HHVM is all installed as a single big deliverable, which gives you the language engine and supporting runtime libraries”
neutral · production · kmavm · 2017-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?