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Wouldn't facebook benefit from just starting to rewrite parts of their infrastructure in a language more suited to their scale, like twitter did with scala? I c
by jurre 14y ago
Wouldn't facebook benefit from just starting to rewrite parts of their infrastructure in a language more suited to their scale, like twitter did with scala? I can't help but feel all this effort into bending php into corners it was never meant for is not helping them in the long run.
- jamescun 14y agoWhen you are facebook's scale, there is no off-the-shelf solution. Whatever they choose to do, it's most likely going to be their own effort. There is nothing that bad about the PHP language and the fact that all their developers know it, it makes sense that they keep the language, just change what runs it.
- oliwarner 14y agoSure they could but where's the geeky fun in that? As a developer, I'm just happy that the Facebook devs can do projects like this. They have a real shot at making life better for the rest of the devs on the planet.