Re:Reason React 0.8
by Scarbutt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:01PM
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If the language has proved to be worthy, why messenger.com only though?
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This meritocratic model is unfortunately not really how language popularity plays out in the real world. At least not on career-length timescales.
Was referring to Facebook usage only, like in, why isn't it used more at FB?
I asked a similar question recently, one of the maintainers was nice enough to reply with some info. Perhaps this sheds some light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116754
I think the point stands doubly strong in case of Facebook. They're a PHP shop after all.
PHP doesn't run in the browser...
Sure, but using it in the backend tells us that there is no language meritocracy at FB.