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I'm of course speaking from an outsider's point of view, but do you think PHP was a good option, or was it a "fitting a square peg into a round hole" situation?
by supernikio2 3y ago
I'm of course speaking from an outsider's point of view, but do you think PHP was a good option, or was it a "fitting a square peg into a round hole" situation?
- nikhizzle 3y agoIt was not a deliberate choice, just it was what the site was built in, so people like Evan and Marcel (Laverdet) made php beautiful for us.
- troupo 3y ago> but do you think PHP was a good option, or was it a "fitting a square peg into a round hole" situation? Facebook was founded in 2004. Whatever fancy tech you're thinking that would fit the round hole, it didn't exist then. They also never thought it would serve a couple billion of users one day, so they built it in whatever they had and knew at the time. Same for Instagram and Python (they started with Django).
- zitterbewegung 3y agoHow they have used Instagram with Django is that they have replaced pieces of Django over time with custom parts which is a benefit of the design of Django.