Re:xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
by rrdharan on Sunday March 31, 2024 @10:08AM
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MySpace, Yahoo! Mail, eBay and probably other large scale operations were all built on PHP long before Facebook and I don’t think any of them were particularly ashamed about it.
Re:xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
by toyg on Sunday March 31, 2024 @07:36PM
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I doubt eBay was originally built with PHP - when it was founded in 1995, the very first PHP version had been available for barely 3 months. I expect the original EBay was mostly Perl, which was the standard at the time.
The others I don't know, but MySpace was not a particularly big operation. Before WordPress, most sites started as PHP at some point were expected to migrate to something else, because maintainability of PHP3/4 projects was a big challenge (hence the "shame"). Facebook was the first company that simply refused to do that, and focused on improving PHP instead.
Re:xz: A Microcosm of the interactions in Open Source projects
by manquer on Sunday March 31, 2024 @01:38PM
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PHP was a popular stack at that time ? Wikipedia and Wordpress existed and were very popular and unashamedly PHP.
What PHP lacked and Ruby had was rails like framework , the team from 37signals singlehandedly shifted the momentum out of PHP with their work on rails.
It was definitely another world. I do agree that maintainership issues were already there, but I think they were smaller in number. Between the explosion of projects and the explosion of users, they are now on a different scale.