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> Its the biggest example out there why should not use PHP for anything close to, say 10% of facebook scale. What a weird take to base your current belief on s
by nolok 1y ago
> Its the biggest example out there why should not use PHP for anything close to, say 10% of facebook scale.
What a weird take to base your current belief on something that happened more than a decade ago.
Not only the condition for Hack creation (speed, memory usage and strict type checking) have been fixed a long time ago since php 7.0
But also if you reach 10% of facebook scale, it doesn't matter what language you used, you will need to rewrite anyway.
Show me a company where PHP is the issue because they reached 10% of facebook scale, and what you're showing is a company that succeeded thanks to PHP. Applies to other language the same. Picking your stack based on "but what if I reach that scale" has to be the mother of all premature optimisations.
- phplovesong 1y agoThere are many large projects out there written in say, Java (the old boring dog) that did not have to rewrite. I can add C# as another traditional corpororate language. There are many others too. PHP not so much.
- nolok 1y agoYeah you will have to provide a list of "10% of facebook scale" projects using those language and didn't need to have any rewrite