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Re:PHP Sucks by lujim on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:27AM (#11915888)
Facebook wouldn't use it if Facebook started two or three years after it did.
Re:PHP Sucks by rythie on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:33AM (#11915941)
That's right they'd probably be struggling to scale Ruby on Rails like Twitter who started 2 years after facebook.
Re:PHP Sucks by nkozyra on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:48AM (#11916042)
To be fair, FB struggled to scale with PHP, although it certainly fares better out of the box (even then). A lot of their work has gone into making PHP more performant and better by way of Hack.

PHP7 took a lot of great ideas from Hack but is still saddled with its legacy.

Re:PHP Sucks by rythie on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:20AM (#11916253)
They did? I remember numerous Twitter outages due to scale and the infamous Fail Whale. Twitter's issues risked the company losing users or even it's sustainability as a business.

Never remember Facebook having much issue.

Re:PHP Sucks by jpea on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:24AM (#11916285)
Facebook wouldn't likely exist if it wasn't for PHP. Zuck wrote something quickly in what he knew. They were able to deploy quickly, scale quickly, etc. Internally, they likely had the hope to migrate off of it at some point, but the business goals trumped the tech stack. From an outsiders point of view, no one cares about the tech problems they face with their tech stack.
Re:PHP Sucks by anonjdgpogjsop on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:39AM (#11915978)
Facebook is using his own PHP, optimized as fuck, so... Tell us what they should have used ? :D
Re:PHP Sucks by lujim on Thursday June 16, 2016 @10:37AM (#11916394)
A few years later there would have been Rails or Django. With the strides FB made in PHP it would have been cool to see what they could have done with those frameworks/languages.
Re:PHP Sucks by krallja on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:41AM (#11915993)
What would they use instead?