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If the language has proved to be worthy, why messenger.com only though?

• fulafel 6y ago
  This meritocratic model is unfortunately not really how language popularity plays out in the real world. At least not on career-length timescales.
  • Scarbutt 6y ago
    Was referring to Facebook usage only, like in, why isn't it used more at FB?
    • jordwalke 6y ago
      It is.
    • vosper 6y ago
      I asked a similar question recently, one of the maintainers was nice enough to reply with some info. Perhaps this sheds some light: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23116754
    • fulafel 6y ago
      I think the point stands doubly strong in case of Facebook. They're a PHP shop after all.
      • Scarbutt 6y ago
        PHP doesn't run in the browser...
        • fulafel 6y ago
          Sure, but using it in the backend tells us that there is no language meritocracy at FB.