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0 pointsKillswitch10y ago0 comments

You do realize that the number 2 ranked website on the internet runs on PHP.

Get over your elitest attitude. PHP is a fine language and has it's warrants of use.

Speaking of, 2 days ago marked a year since I last used PHP.

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ihsw10y ago

Are you talking about Facebook? They're transitioning over to Hack.

http://hacklang.org/

As far as I understand, most/all new development is done in Hack.

Granted, a lot of Hack features are starting to make their way into PHP (much like how exciting new TypeScript features are making their way into ES6 and above), but focus has been shifted to Hack.

KillswitchOP10y ago

Hack is derived from PHP, they've only tuned the engine for their own usecase, and not to mention anyone in the PHP community can use Hack.

Hack is basically the TypeScript of PHP. Regular PHP works fine on Hack, but you can start incorporating Hack things into your PHP.

If you want to go that route, then my site is actually powered by Babel and not JavaScript.

Shish2k10y ago

> number 2 ranked website on the internet runs on PHP

The frontend is "PHP", but with a replacement engine, a replacement language, and a replacement standard library...

Having written a bunch of facebook-style Hack and wordpress-style PHP, I would personally consider them about as similar as C++ and Java.

sneak10y ago

The number one bank runs FORTRAN. What is the point you are trying to make?

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