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Agree with all your points except this one. >> Maybe all of this will change once Facebook releases Hiphop VM AND people actually start using it. The argument
by jmathai 14y ago
Agree with all your points except this one.
>> Maybe all of this will change once Facebook releases Hiphop VM AND people actually start using it.
The argument that PHP doesn't scale is a strawman. To scale anything to the likes of Facebook or Google you have to have serious architecture in place regardless of the language you choose.
- chaostheory 14y agoI wasn't thinking of scale. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't hiphop VM essentially expand PHP from just being a web language into something more?
- jmathai 14y agoI stand corrected. I hadn't thought of it really. But the thought of PHP for non-web kind of makes me cringe even if it's translated into another language by an intermediary. For sanity sake I'm going to assume NO :).