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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by lyu07282 on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:31AM (#36631483)
Such a pedantic response, the archetypical HN comment, I can sense the pretentious smirk on your face while writing it, thanks. Words still mean something, we don't compile a dynamically typed, interpreted scripting language such as PHP for a reason and as it turns out Facebook didn't "compile PHP" either but a dialect of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)

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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by redsky880 on Friday July 07, 2023 @06:19PM (#36639030)
Facebook transpiled it before using the HHVM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP

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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by dang on Sunday July 09, 2023 @02:06PM (#36657097)
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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