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In all fairness with enough hardware you could serve ~1 billion users using virtually any language which supports development of web applications. Just because
by thebluesky 14y ago
In all fairness with enough hardware you could serve ~1 billion users using virtually any language which supports development of web applications. Just because you can develop a hugely successful system using a language doesn't prove (or disprove) that said language is necessarily the best tool for the job. It just happens to be what FB picked.
- slurgfest 14y agoRight, you could use BASIC or any Turing-complete language. Actually, BASIC has been written so many times that you would probably get a pretty sane and systematic experience out of a web BASIC. Relatively speaking.