25 Years of PHP [video]

Re:25 Years of PHP [video] by botto on Sunday September 08, 2019 @05:48PM (#20913653)

True, they use hacklang but it's no longer folowing the php spec https://hhvm.com/blog/2019/02/11/hhvm-4.0.0.html

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Re:25 Years of PHP [video] by tpmx on Sunday September 08, 2019 @05:59PM (#20913705)

Does anyone know what language(s) they tend to use for more "backend" style services?

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Re:25 Years of PHP [video] by minxomat on Sunday September 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#20913722)

Mostly Hack and C++ as far as I can tell from glancing at their recent ACM paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3338112

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Re:25 Years of PHP [video] by tpmx on Sunday September 08, 2019 @06:13PM (#20913761)

Nice, a very fresh source (August 2019)!

"C++ is the main language of choice for backend services. There are 10s of millions of lines each of mobile and backend code."

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