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Oh please! Obviously Facebook benefits when people use their programming language more. People contribute to the standard library, test stuff, share stuff. The

• skeletonjelly 13y ago
  Agreed. The line from Marco's footnote irks me. "They get almost no benefit from anyone else using them" "Except finding bugs and occasionally submitting patches, but Facebook is so massive with such a large codebase that they’re likely to find most bugs relevant to them long before anyone else does". Facebook's bug bounty proves this to be untrue.
• TheEzEzz 13y ago
  They benefit from adoption of Hack but they don't suffer from abandoning it. Contrast this with Microsoft and C#. Microsoft would suffer if they abandoned C#. They would lose a huge swath of developer mind share. They would rattle confidence of the remaining developers. There would be huge costs to their clients who would be forced to switch to a new (possibly not-Microsoft) technology.
• pearjuice 13y ago
  OP's head is a linkbait fluff article magnet which is somehow seen as the holy grail here on HN and other echo circles. I have no idea where this originates from and it hurts me to see that his void content gets picked over actual quality content just because it's "the Marco". His domain should be - wildcard at the begin and end - permanently banned from Hacker News because it only drags us into a wasted spot on the frontpage.
  • eyeballtrees 13y ago
    It also provides us with wonderful comments like these. I don't enjoy Marco for the articles, I enjoy him for the HN comments. It's the best part.