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All the more condescending considering some of the biggest software companies in the world (such as facebook) use PHP.
by InclinedPlane 8y ago
All the more condescending considering some of the biggest software companies in the world (such as facebook) use PHP.
- BillinghamJ 8y agoWhat Facebook use these days is a long way away from PHP. Hack is quite different in various non-trivial ways. The more typical “99th percentile” PHP is not used by any of the biggest tech companies to deliver their core products.
- ehnto 8y agoPHP7 has closed the gap on Hack quite a bit.
- geerlingguy 8y agoYeah; the few people crazy enough to try to switch to Hack from vanilla PHP in the past few years just went to PHP 7, which is faster and fixed a number of the gripes devs had with PHP.
- lucideer 8y ago> Hack is quite different in various non-trivial ways [citation needed]. In what non-trivial ways is Hack different to PHP? Of the three distinguishing features highlighted on https://hacklang.org/ https://hacklang.org/, PHP has two (the exception is generics, which I don't think PHP has added... yet).
- conradfr 8y agoHack has async.
- reitanqild 8y ago> The more typical “99th percentile” PHP What does this mean?
- paulie_a 8y agoFacebook basically doesn't use php anymore. It is a minority and dwindling part of their codebase
- PunchTornado 8y agothey use a lot of php, look at the requests on the site, also phabricator is in php and they use it a lot.
- amaccuish 8y agoJust because a file as the extension .php doesn't mean it is. Facebook has liekly moved a lot of things around and rewritten a lot, but wanted to keep the same URL paths.
- jorisw 8y agoMatt Mullenweg mentions in a recent interview with Kara Swisher that Facebook run most of their non-facebook.com sites on WordPress nowadays.
- guu 8y agoYes, slack uses PHP as well...