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> this is super specific to php and tbh I’m surprised anyone is still using it in industry LOL! Facebook and Wayfair are using it among https://trio.dev/blo
by mandeepj 5y ago
> this is super specific to php and tbh I’m surprised anyone is still using it in industry
LOL!
Facebook and Wayfair are using it among https://trio.dev/blog/companies-using-php https://trio.dev/blog/companies-using-php
- klodolph 5y agoFacebook uses Hack. Hack is to PHP what C++ is to C, sort of. You can take PHP code and run it as Hack code, sometimes, but there are lots of reasons why PHP code might not be valid Hack code these days (Hack has diverged from upstream). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_(programming_language)
- echelon 5y agoAcross n languages you have m libraries that need to be maintained. As new languages are introduced or as existing ones gain market share, the maintainers of old libraries are stretched thin. You need to have n*m maintainers, and the number of concerns to keep track of continues to grow. Perl has fallen. Fortran is legacy. Ruby isn't as hot as it once was. At some point, new people won't want to learn an old language. This is when a language begins to wither away. It will happen to PHP. Eventually (in the technological limit) it'll happen to everything.