> Facebook is written in PHP
For social reasons, not technical ones. PHP is the language of cheap labour. To address the technical issues, Facebook's PHP code gets thoroughly translated in their backend.
For social reasons, not technical ones. PHP is the language of cheap labour. To address the technical issues, Facebook's PHP code gets thoroughly translated in their backend.
Nice straw man argument. Pointing out that PHP is used for social/economic reasons is exactly saying that there are considerations outside technical merit.
At the same time, Facebook is a big Haskell user, but that is because of its technical merits. (Simon Marlow works for Facebook) On a back-end technology such as a compiler, the technical merits of the language are much more important than the social merits of finding enough low-skilled/low-paid developers.
Or so I've heard