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I see your point, but Facebook had large collection of code written in php(still is?), and they are far from having "lack of investment or interest in technolog

I see your point, but Facebook had large collection of code written in php(still is?), and they are far from having "lack of investment or interest in technology."

SamuelAdams 4y ago
To be fair back in the early 2000’s PHP was one of the best options.
- notRobot 4y ago
  And for many purposes, still is.
tinym 4y ago
To your point they also, like, wrote their own PHP interpreter. If you asked your Facebook interviewer about PHP you'd probably get an interesting answer!
- kragen 4y ago
  compiler twice
strict9 4y ago
They are definitely the outlier and the version of php that fb uses can barely be called php when they more or less rewrote how it works under the hood. But this isn't a dig at php, just stating chosen languages/frameworks matter a lot. I think it speaks volumes about a company's tech philosophy if they still mainly use php and jquery for web development.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  What about if they use Java or C++ or Erlang for production code, rather than, say, Go or Rust?
  - Raidion 4y ago
    The state of thr deployment pipeline and tests matters a whole lot more than the specific language.