"The company is also technologically weird. For example, much of the code that runs the site is written in a horrible computer language called PHP, which stands

"The company is also technologically weird. For example, much of the code that runs the site is written in a horrible computer language called PHP, which stands for nothing you care about. Millions of websites are built with PHP, because it works and it's cheap to run, but PHP is a programming language like scrapple is a meat. Imagine eating two pounds of scrapple every day for the rest of your life — that’s what Facebook does, programming-wise. Which is just to say that Facebook has its own way of doing things that looks very suspect from the outside world — but man, does it work." Why is this article on HN exactly? The article took 8-9 paragraphs to even start talking about the app actually being sold, and even then doesn't have a single point that addresses the the headline - what to actually do when your favorite app sells out (or shuts down or stops being maintained)