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I’m quoted a bunch in this, which I appreciate, but there’s one mistake here — Slack no longer uses PHP, having migrated its codebase to Hack. Also listing lan
by muglug 3y ago
I’m quoted a bunch in this, which I appreciate, but there’s one mistake here — Slack no longer uses PHP, having migrated its codebase to Hack.
Also listing language usage by what’s returned in server headers undercounts languages used on some of the biggest, most popular internet properties.
Sites like Amazon, TikTok and YouTube/Google consume a lot of our total attention, but they tend not to report their backend server languages in response headers.
If you shift from raw numbers to where people actually spend their time, I doubt PHP would be at the top.
- tacker2000 3y agoHack is a “dialect” of PHP created by Meta to be more performant and have types, among other features. So its not like they shifted their codebase to an entirely new language.
- 59nadir 3y agoIt certainly markets itself as a completely different language, though you'd probably expect that. On one hand I'm almost positive that someone who's made the transition from PHP to Hack would point out that it's way more cumbersome to switch than you're making it out to be but on the other I have no personal experience with it and I would assume that set is small enough where we might have issues finding one to inform us here.