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by giaour 3840 days ago
IIRC, one of Facebook's motivations for sticking with PHP was that it was the easiest language for everybody new to learn, meaning that they don't have to consider language expertise when hiring.

FWIW, they have released cool open source projects on Haskell and ocaml, so it's not like they've never considered any alternatives.
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jonesb6 3840 days ago
My understanding is that Facebook also had a MASSIVE amount of PHP code written. They then ported the performance bits to C++ and then realized they still had a huge amount invested in PHP, such that it wasn't worth it to switch off it entirely.

I also have a small suspicion that they wanted to stick to their roots a bit. But thats just me.

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