@scottalanmiller said:

That Facebook is using HHVM in production makes me a little more comfortable with it.

True, but I would guess that Facebook's application runs mostly on code that Facebook is responsible for maintaining. On the other hand, most WordPress websites have at least a couple of third party plugins and/or themes and those usually assume you're running on PHP 5 so there's a higher chance of stuff like this happening.

Probably wouldn't be an issue very often but I would be more paranoid about updates breaking things if I were running HHVM in production.

@tonyshowoff

Ah that looks much prettier, thanks for the tidbit of advice

I've been working with PHP 7, it's pretty impressive so far, I really love the type hinting / pseudo-static typing -- it's something I've wanted for PHP for over a decade. There are missing extensions which haven't been ported and most importantly, xdebug, doesn't look like it'll be ported for a while, as on github I noticed the primary contributors were complaining that it'd be "too hard" to do it. In the mean time I created a drop in replacement which works somewhat OK:

http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/php-7-replacement-for-xdebug-tracing/

Code is under MIT/X11, because unlike Stallman, I don't believe in forcing you to let me see your code, in other words, I've showed you mine, you need not show me yours 😉

I know some people starting to use Go and really liking it.

Hey awesome, great idea. Now go make a Lua one!

Wow if i look back the day when i first met the CentOS. Thanks to @scottalanmiller and @Minion-Queen because of you guys I learned about them and yeah I will keep going in learning 🙂

@Dashrender said:

I'm also setting this up inside an ESXi VM.. do I need to install VM tools?

Yes