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Can you provide evidence of this claim that profitable/large companies don't use PHP? Or just parroting unfounded php hate.

coding_lobster 6y ago
I wouldn't say it's unfounded but anecdotal. And I wouldn't necessarily call it "hate" either. PHP definitely isn't one of those technologies that you see often on job listings of major companies - sure they might use it for some things such as blogs but it's rarely part of the stack of their staple products. The question isn't whether they use it but to what extent and in what products.
- AaronNewcomer 6y ago
  On a quick search of PHP skills wanted on LinkedIn jobs I found the following large companies looking for it: Apple, Cloudflare, Vimeo, Box, Slack, Tesla, Etsy, Wayfair, Shopify, Facebook, Etc
  - sroussey 6y ago
    Clearly WordPress and Magento based businesses. Add in Facebook, Weebly/Square, and you realize that PHP probably drives more page views and powers more domain named sites than any other.
    - spdionis 6y ago
      How are Vimeo and Slack Magento or Wordpress businesses? Etsy also most certainly does not primarily use those.
wtracy 6y ago
Facebook's codebase is overwhelmingly written in PHP. If the F in FAANG doesn't qualify, then I don't know what does.
- nobleach 6y ago
  I know that a few years ago it was en vogue to say this but, hasn't HHVM diverged from off-the-shelf PHP? Facebook as a company has so many moving pieces written in so many different languages. Yes, the original codebase was a large PHP app. Last I heard, there was a decent amount of C++ and even some Haskell floating around.
- plorkyeran 6y ago
  Facebook's been using Hack for close to a decade now. Hack still strongly resembles PHP, but it's taken a different direction from PHP 7 and HHVM is no longer intending to be an alternative PHP runtime (https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html).

coding_lobster 6y ago

I wouldn't say it's unfounded but anecdotal. And I wouldn't necessarily call it "hate" either. PHP definitely isn't one of those technologies that you see often on job listings of major companies - sure they might use it for some things such as blogs but it's rarely part of the stack of their staple products. The question isn't whether they use it but to what extent and in what products.

AaronNewcomer 6y ago
On a quick search of PHP skills wanted on LinkedIn jobs I found the following large companies looking for it: Apple, Cloudflare, Vimeo, Box, Slack, Tesla, Etsy, Wayfair, Shopify, Facebook, Etc
- sroussey 6y ago
  Clearly WordPress and Magento based businesses. Add in Facebook, Weebly/Square, and you realize that PHP probably drives more page views and powers more domain named sites than any other.
  - spdionis 6y ago
    How are Vimeo and Slack Magento or Wordpress businesses? Etsy also most certainly does not primarily use those.

wtracy 6y ago

Facebook's codebase is overwhelmingly written in PHP. If the F in FAANG doesn't qualify, then I don't know what does.

nobleach 6y ago
I know that a few years ago it was en vogue to say this but, hasn't HHVM diverged from off-the-shelf PHP? Facebook as a company has so many moving pieces written in so many different languages. Yes, the original codebase was a large PHP app. Last I heard, there was a decent amount of C++ and even some Haskell floating around.
plorkyeran 6y ago
Facebook's been using Hack for close to a decade now. Hack still strongly resembles PHP, but it's taken a different direction from PHP 7 and HHVM is no longer intending to be an alternative PHP runtime (https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html https://hhvm.com/blog/2017/09/18/the-future-of-hhvm.html).