"zsh: illegal hardware instruction hhvm" when running Hackland on VSCode, Macbook Pro M1

Question

I'm trying to run a Hacklang code and also a Hacklang website on VSCode, Mac Pro M1. However, I keep getting the errors

zsh: illegal hardware instruction hhvm hello.hack

and

zsh: illegal hardware instruction hhvm -m server -p 8080

I follow the instructions from the Hack docs, but it seems not to be working.

Could anyone please help me resolve this issue?

Answer 1

HHVM does not support ARM64 Macs (M1+): https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/8875

I suggest switching to PHP.