[rohansingh]

> And the reason it did so was because even though PHP had little cachet, it was easy to hire PHP devs.

Really not true. There is no part of the hiring process at FB that focuses on trying to find PHP (or now — Hack) developers. The main impetus was that there was an existing, large, PHP code base.

Disclaimer: former FB engineer

[jawns]

Obviously not now. But the choice to start with PHP and not quickly migrate away did have something to do with the fact that it was easy to find people familiar with it, and easy for people not familiar with it to pick it up.