Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
by paxys on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @12:32PM
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I don't work at FB but can say with second hand experience that the company is "all in" on Hack/HHVM. The language has diverged far enough from PHP that moving back is simply not feasible.
As for "considerations of using some open source language", individual teams are mostly free to use whatever best fits their use case, similar to what you may expect at any company of that size. Pretty much every major language is in use at FB somewhere or the other. And HHVM is also open source.
As for "considerations of using some open source language", individual teams are mostly free to use whatever best fits their use case, similar to what you may expect at any company of that size. Pretty much every major language is in use at FB somewhere or the other. And HHVM is also open source.