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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by _pmf_ on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @06:12AM (#14146684)
FB employs one of the world's best C++ developers (Andrei Alexandrescu) to write custom string implementations and maintain/extend their homegrown PHP VM. Their development practices would be completely unsustainable for any company that has anything resembling economic accountability.
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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by steveklabnik on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:45AM (#14147636)
Andrei left Facebook almost two years ago https://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]...
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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by true_religion on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @07:53AM (#14147065)
Ah, many companies have homegrown languages they use internally. You don't even have to be a big company to do so. Wasabi is an example of that.
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Re:Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible by _pmf_ on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @08:13AM (#14147142)
True; I just disagree with the general tendency to treat everything FB or Google does as the holy grail of best practices (or even good at all) for the average company.
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