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by technomancy 5780 days ago
> PHP is largely ubiquitous.

Easy to deploy, but hard to find skilled hackers who will voluntarily work in it.

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Maybe some people will stick their noses up at working on PHP. I'm not super excited by those people, and I think its a shame when talented developers get embittered into language wars, but I can certainly understand why they happen.

I tell everyone working on GNU social that we're going it for the betterment of the world, not their own personal situation. That means running it everywhere.

What about facebook?
Facebook has too much legacy code to switch from PHP to anything sane, but I don't doubt many of them would like to. The Quora guys promptly adopted Python after leaving.
it's probably going to be hard to get facebook developers to work on gnu social though :)
They get props for compiling the bloody thing to C++.