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FB employs one of the world's best C++ developers (Andrei Alexandrescu) to write custom string implementations and maintain/extend their homegrown PHP VM. Their
by _pmf_ 10y ago
FB employs one of the world's best C++ developers (Andrei Alexandrescu) to write custom string implementations and maintain/extend their homegrown PHP VM. Their development practices would be completely unsustainable for any company that has anything resembling economic accountability.
- true_religion 10y agoAh, many companies have homegrown languages they use internally. You don't even have to be a big company to do so. Wasabi is an example of that.
- _pmf_ 10y agoTrue; I just disagree with the general tendency to treat everything FB or Google does as the holy grail of best practices (or even good at all) for the average company.
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- steveklabnik 10y agoAndrei left Facebook almost two years ago https://forum.dlang.org/post/xsqrdgwnzehdmfmvcznn@forum.dlang.org https://forum.dlang.org/post/xsqrdgwnzehdmfmvcznn@forum.dlan...