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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.
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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.

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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.

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