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> Hack/HHVM was developed by Facebook to modernize PHP. Yes but why use PHP in the first place? It's not the right tool for something like Facebook.
by hasenj 9y ago
> Hack/HHVM was developed by Facebook to modernize PHP.
Yes but why use PHP in the first place? It's not the right tool for something like Facebook.
- Joeri 9y agoIn 2003 PHP was the most sensible choice for rapid prototyping of a web app and for early facebook it was more important to iterate and experiment than build it right. Even today it still holds its own, but there are plenty of alternatives (rails, node.js, ...)