Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
by simscitizen on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:23PM
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The PHP to C++ compiler hasn't been used for something on the order of 10 years.
At least as of two years ago, pretty much entire web-facing portion of Facebook was written in Hack (which descends from PHP, but has what feels like every syntax feature you could stuff into an Algol-like language). Hack is run on HHVM, which is a bytecode VM that can JIT compile to machine code.
At least as of two years ago, pretty much entire web-facing portion of Facebook was written in Hack (which descends from PHP, but has what feels like every syntax feature you could stuff into an Algol-like language). Hack is run on HHVM, which is a bytecode VM that can JIT compile to machine code.