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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by ergo14 on Thursday July 06, 2017 @02:31PM (#14712690)
Facebook does not "normal" PHP that much, they use host of languages, including Hack, erlang and lots of Python.
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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by urethrafranklin on Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:52PM (#14713349)
Most of their code is Hack, and Hack is a superset of PHP (last time I checked all it really adds is static typing and async)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659729

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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by ergo14 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:37PM (#14765489)
> all it really adds is static typing and async

You make that sound like its not a big deal vs vanilla php.

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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by urethrafranklin on Saturday July 15, 2017 @10:50AM (#14776896)
It's really not. All the sadness and broken-ness of PHP is still there.
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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by ADefenestrator on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @02:35AM (#14802364)
A lot broken-ness is still left for the sake of compatibility (especially since HHVM's open-source), but Collections and type hinting make a huge difference.
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Re:Why Did So Many Startups Choose MongoDB? by jackweirdy on Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:12PM (#14713033)
Right. That's why I said "Started With".
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