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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by staticassertion on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:46PM (#14674304)
Yes, exactly. Thanks very much. Do you know if Facebook/ Youtube are still in PHP / Python?
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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by noir_lord on Friday June 30, 2017 @07:53PM (#14674327)
Facebook still uses PHP for a lot of templating/page generation, they use a bunch of stuff on the back not least HHVM which was great because it forced/focused the PHP team in a bunch of areas, php7 is a huge I improvement over 5 on just about every metric.

It's not amazing as a language still but it's much much better and the ecosystem has really improved, modern PHP leveraging good composer components is pretty good.

Even some good static analysis tooling these days.

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