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But here's the thing: You can dockerise a PHP app. How am I meant to make a fat binary out of one? For years Facebook (reportedly) did this with hPHPc. Not a v

by awirth 9y ago

But here's the thing: You can dockerise a PHP app. How am I meant to make a fat binary out of one? For years Facebook (reportedly) did this with hPHPc. Not a very good idea these days, but it's certainly within the realm of possibilities for large companies.

hennsen 9y ago
Yes, and we all know every shop in town has resources comparable to Facebook‘s...
- tyingq 9y ago
  You can compile a statically linked PHP interpreter. Probably a bit of messing around with configure and makefiles, but doable.
  - jblow 9y ago
    More to the point, if this became the commonly-accepted sane way to do things, php would support it directly and it would be easy.
stuartaxelowen 9y ago
It seems you've misunderstood the problem.
r0fls 9y ago
I think the author's retort would be that PHP is one of these "outdated" languages like Python and Ruby. I tend to disagree, but overall enjoyed their opinion anyway. I came to criticize the article, but I think this comment already does that well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15578147