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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by riffraff on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:51PM (#22193465)
what for? It's not like it would be particularly dangerous to see code which is 13 year old.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by munk-a on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:39PM (#22193979)
Pretty sure all their code is intensely different now - they did write the HHVM engine in 2011 and I wouldn't be surprised if they ported as much logic as possible to that and added strict typing over it all.
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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by ocdtrekkie on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:29PM (#22193842)
It’s worth noting that Windows occasionally is inflicted by discovered vulnerabilities that are over twenty years old.

Not sure how applicable that would be to Facebook’s codebase over this much time. But worth noting.

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Re:Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007 by giarc on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:36PM (#22193930)
Just look at Swift and all the Cocoa classes. Many are prefixed with NS, which comes from the NeXTSTEP days.
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