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Most of Facebook is built on PHP. I’m surprised they didn’t choose Laravel.
by DarkNova6 3y ago
Most of Facebook is built on PHP. I’m surprised they didn’t choose Laravel.
- yurishimo 3y agoLaravel wasn't created until 2010/11~
- cptcobalt 3y agoLaravel is not a requirement to use PHP effectively.
- DarkNova6 3y agoOh, I know. But as a joke I chose the most well known framework. Personally evren I prefer php over python.
- sangnoir 3y agoIt turns out calling the app "Threads by Instagram" is not just a branding gimmick. The Instagram backend was always Python/Django since before the acquisition.
- mrweasel 3y agoThat's pretty interesting, I wonder if that means that it's build by a team at Instagram, and not Facebook. I'd assume so. I get that Facebook is still a huge success, but I do find it telling that they opted to put Threads under Instagram, rather than Facebook.
- jadtz 3y agoI think its pretty obvious they went with Instagram branding, as Facebook branding has been tarnished for a while.
- goykasi 3y agoThe web codebase was once written in PHP, but they moved away from that a decade ago.
- rafark 3y agoIt’s still very similar to php. Same syntax, same execution model. If you look at some hack snippets you would think it’s php (because it mostly is). Switching from hack to php and viceversa should be extremely easy. That being said, they chose python because Instagram is written in python, they are probably using a lot of existing libraries.
- goykasi 3y agoThat wouldn't even make sense. They created hack/hhvm to scale and optimize the platform and codebase. Taking a step backwards and refactoring (hack != php now) would be a horrible idea.