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by giancarlostoro
3309 days ago
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It's not necessarily a performance issue, unless you're Facebook (traffic wise) you might never worry about that, but it's more about the developers who use PHP[0] it's a mixed bag of below junior level to senior level developers. It's hard to know which type of codebase you will get your hands on until you do. There's other issues I personally have with it, though I use it if it's not code I can easily reinvent without investing way too much of my own time on it e.g. a forum or a blog engine. [0]: http://thedailywtf.com/articles/switched-over |
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Facebook hasn't spent a lot of time worrying about their choice of PHP either. Facebook's primary language is Hack, a mostly compatible derivative of PHP. Prior to Hack (~2014) Facebook used traditional PHP, which they reimplemented a couple times for performance reasons. It seems that Facebook has spent its time worrying about how NOT to leave PHP.
Makes one wonder about the value of this daily new programming language era we're in at the moment.