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You’re completely discounting that PHP has qualities that may have helped early Facebook grow. In fact one the engineers did a talk about exactly that.
by justinhj 8y ago
You’re completely discounting that PHP has qualities that may have helped early Facebook grow. In fact one the engineers did a talk about exactly that.
- jacquesm 8y agoThe language that you start in may not be the most appropriate tool in the longer term. Facebook grew so fast they did not have enough air to switch, hence their incredible investment in making PHP better. Look, I've built I don't know how many websites in PHP, and my company still earns a lot of money with a tool I threw together in a day or two in it so I have nothing but admiration for what it can do. But you'll be the last person to hear me argue that there aren't better tools for the majority of the jobs at hand. We are all looking forward to the day that it can be retired, but in the meantime we will definitely keep using it and we will continue to pray to the PHP gods. It is a very productive little language that has a ton of warts and some serious issues, but it does have a niche and it is useful.
- justinhj 8y agoThat's a fair point, I'm sure there are ways to build things that have the benefits of PHP today that may not have been as abundant back when Facebook was starting out.