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facebook, php ∎

• systems 9y ago
  and they are now seem invested in Ocaml/Reason (which are a lot less popular compared to Go) i guess after companies reach a certain size, they can go beyond choosing a programming platform for its ecosystem
  • bpicolo 9y ago
    Are they using much ocaml on the backend? At facebook's size they have a whole lot of different languages in the stack. I'd be very surprised if a significant portion of new backend development were in OCaml though.
    • systems 9y ago
      you can check their github account, they have several static analysis tools written in ocaml and then they have reason, is being used heavily in messenger https://reasonml.github.io/community/blog/#messengercom-now-50-converted-to-reason https://reasonml.github.io/community/blog/#messengercom-now-...