And still nobody outside of Meta cares about hack.

The niche I think PHP had back in the day has largely been supplanted by Python.

Maybe it’s better now, but after moving on from it to basically anything else after a 25 year career, I don’t miss it.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make by mentioning Hack.

At this point it's diverged from PHP to the point that it's basically a different language, is (IIRC) actually slower than PHP 8, and the HHVM doesn't even support PHP any more.

As such, it's not a huge surprise that relatively few people outside of Meta give it much attention.

I also moved on from PHP several years ago, and don't miss it. That doesn't mean I don't recognise that there are still perfectly legitimate reasons to choose it.

> And still nobody outside of Meta cares about hack.

Because everyone is OK with PHP. I'm not even using it directly but most of the web runs on it.