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