Re:Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta
by powersurge360 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:24PM
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This is what I had considered to be the state of things. The phrasing on initial read suggested to me that C++ & Rust were the default now for performance critical services (with Rust being a new add) and Hack was used where it made sense but not necessarily by default anymore. I think I may have discounted Hack's role too much.
Note that before Java adoption push we had stuff like ATLServer, and the first version of ASP were basically COM libraries being called from VBscript/JScript.
On our case, we were calling C code from TCL scripts, using plugins like mod_tcl.
Nowadays you have stuff like Boost ASIO and Wt.
However I wouldn't plug C or C++ directly into the Internet, rather call them from managed languages, as native libraries, reducing the risk of possible exploits.