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Mission critical software projects, by their nature are started rarely and make very conservative language choices. By its nature, much of it is old, so it's in
by madhadron 5y ago
Mission critical software projects, by their nature are started rarely and make very conservative language choices. By its nature, much of it is old, so it's in C++. There's also a fair amount of it in C# and Java, too.
- MontagFTB 5y agoWasn’t a lot of Facebook’s initial implementation php? I seem to recall they moved off it, or wrote a specialized compiler to speed it up.
- wilsonthewhale 5y agoWeb logic is in Hack (offshoot of PHP), but all of the surrounding infrastructure has always been heavily skewed towards C++.