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Does Facebook use Python 3 for Facebook frontend website? Or in PHP/Hack? (Facebook website frontend is well known to be in PHP/Hack)

• ambivalence 9y ago
  Facebook's WWW is Hack. Instagram's WWW is Django on Python 3.6.
  • happy-go-lucky 9y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language) > Hack allows programmers to use both dynamic typing and static typing. This kind of a type system is called gradual typing... I wasn't aware of such a type system, and there're many languages which use both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradual_typing
  • collinmanderson 9y ago
    It's true. https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/ https://thenewstack.io/instagram-makes-smooth-move-python-3/