Re:Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook?
by fredemmott on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:44AM
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The warnings about MacOS are mostly being cautious, as I don't think anyone actually runs it in production.
I work with open source Hack code a lot, and I almost always use the MacOS binaries instead of Linux for development.
For my workflows, it's more that there's two major missing things - I'm not seeing random issues. The big things are:
- a lot of the profiling features are Linux-only
- the mcrouter extension is Linux-only. If you're using memcached, this extension is useful even without mcrouterd, as it provides a true async (Awaitable) client.
I work with open source Hack code a lot, and I almost always use the MacOS binaries instead of Linux for development.
For my workflows, it's more that there's two major missing things - I'm not seeing random issues. The big things are:
- a lot of the profiling features are Linux-only
- the mcrouter extension is Linux-only. If you're using memcached, this extension is useful even without mcrouterd, as it provides a true async (Awaitable) client.