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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by wolco on Monday November 26, 2018 @07:44PM (#18538266)
Those facebook improvements made there way back into the core.

Google might be able to move quicker if they allowed php. Facebook killed them in social. The type of products google can offer is limited by this decision.

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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by koudos on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:01PM (#18538375)
Not sure PHP is the reason reason why Google failed at competing at Social
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by Ayesh on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @12:32AM (#18539689)
It is not.
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by baroffoos on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:40PM (#18538875)
Google+ did not fail for technical reasons. Everything I saw about it was technically better. It failed for social reasons, facebook already exists and has everyone on it.
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by ksec on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:46AM (#18542632)
It didn't failed for Social Reason, it failed because it was an inferior product for the mass. Facebook succeeded because its concept is simple enough for even your GrandMa and Dad to understand.

Google+ was designed by geeks for geeks.

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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by TigerHimself on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:13PM (#18539023)
Facebook was here already when Instagram, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat became popular
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by baroffoos on Monday November 26, 2018 @10:19PM (#18539045)
All of those did something different to facebook. None of them attempt to replace it. Googles problem is not that they can't move fast, they already move too fast. Every year they totally rebuild an IM platform and create a new music streaming service.
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by Operyl on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:20PM (#18538489)
HHVM can't make its way entirely back to core, and is in fact completely separating from PHP entirely now[1]. If I recall correctly, while PHP7 implemented better op-caching, it has _not_ implemented JIT compilation yet.

1. https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html

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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by acomjean on Monday November 26, 2018 @09:01PM (#18538689)
This is true. But HHVM lit a fire under the php devs to get php7 out the door with significant performance improvements. (php6 never saw the light of day). Php has improved so much with the 7x releases.
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by tgtweak on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:06PM (#18575076)
Php7 is pretty damn fast with apc cache and some tuning. Not to mention it doesn't have any of the silly restrictions that hhvm had.
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Re:Goro – An implementation of PHP written in Go by muglug on Monday November 26, 2018 @08:28PM (#18538533)
It hasn't - a JIT compiler (if it comes) will come in PHP 8.
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