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HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) vs Visual Studio: What are the differences?
Developers describe HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) as "An open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in Hack and PHP". HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. To date, HHVM (and its predecessor HPHPc before it) has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the PHP 5.2 engine + APC. On the other hand, Visual Studio is detailed as "State-of-the-art tools and services that you can use to create great apps for devices, the cloud, and everything in between". Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) belongs to "Virtual Machine" category of the tech stack, while Visual Studio can be primarily classified under "Integrated Development Environment".
"Very fast" is the primary reason why developers consider HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) over the competitors, whereas "Intellisense, ui" was stated as the key factor in picking Visual Studio.
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) is an open source tool with 16.1K GitHub stars and 2.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)'s open source repository on GitHub.
Microsoft, Starbucks, and Intuit are some of the popular companies that use Visual Studio, whereas HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine) is used by Facebook, Slack, and Wikipedia. Visual Studio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 678 company stacks & 1010 developers stacks; compared to HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine), which is listed in 32 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.
The problem I have is whether to choose Android Studio or Visual Studio? I have to develop a simple app for a school project that can work on both iPhone and Android.
The most important factors for me are Android and iOS compatibility. Although note that i would like to become a Software Engineer when i finish my course. (I'd like to work for Apple, just saying!)
After that id like easy integration for Google Ads and such if i do develop another app that people actually use to support development. (I'd also like to stick with one easy programming language that's compatible with a wide variety of platforms since i'm a beginner and have only ever used Pascal)
First of all - Android Studio and Visual Studio are IDE's. Tools to create code. What you are asking is programming framework. I assume that when you are talking about Android Studio you mean Native Android Development and by Visual Studio you mean Xamarin.
If you want to create crossplatform app then Native Android Development is NOT a way to go. Xamarin might work for you, BUT - you'd rather recommend you to go with Flutter. It's much more performant than Xamarin, programming model is friendlier for developer and technology seems just more refined. It's also officially supported by google, so no worries about support.
Pros of HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
- Very fast30
- Drop-in PHP replacement24
- Works well with nginx14
- Backed by Facebook14
- Open source12
- Statically checked, typed language1
Pros of Visual Studio
- Intellisense, ui305
- Complete ide and debugger244
- Plug-ins165
- Integrated104
- Documentation93
- Fast37
- Node tools for visual studio (ntvs)35
- Free Community edition33
- Simple24
- Bug free17
- Made by Microsoft8
- Full free community version6
- JetBrains plugins (ReSharper etc.) work sufficiently OK5
- Productivity Power Tools3
- Vim mode2
- VIM integration2
- I develop UWP apps and Intellisense is super useful1
- Cross platform development1
- The Power and Easiness to Do anything in any.. language1
- Available for Mac and Windows1
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Cons of HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
Cons of Visual Studio
- Bulky16
- Made by Microsoft14
- Sometimes you need to restart to finish an update6
- Too much size for disk3
- Only avalible on Windows3
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