Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
by woodruffw on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @01:41PM
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> This is the second such PHP thread I've seen in the last 24 hours (the other one was on a different web property); gotta love people shitting on PHP like it's 1998
I don't care for language wars (or the kind of petty language elitism that people get into with PHP), but: isn't Hack effectively its own language (and ecosystem) at this point?
I don't think that Facebook sinking tens of millions of dollars into a custom language dialect because on the initial technical decision to use PHP is a positive testament to it as a language. It instead suggests that Facebook bit the bullet.
Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
by noduerme on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @02:38PM
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I thought the original reason for it was that Zuckerberg didn't want to have the site rewritten by engineers in a language he didn't know. i.e. find a way to scale up this dorm room code without rewriting it.
I don't care for language wars (or the kind of petty language elitism that people get into with PHP), but: isn't Hack effectively its own language (and ecosystem) at this point?
I don't think that Facebook sinking tens of millions of dollars into a custom language dialect because on the initial technical decision to use PHP is a positive testament to it as a language. It instead suggests that Facebook bit the bullet.