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by moksly 2535 days ago
Governments have issues with non-stable code because it changes rapidly, is untested and a security risk. Facebook moves fast and break things.

I think it exposes a key difference between a FAANG company and a lot of other development though. Because most of use simply use the programming languages as tools, but Facebook is actually going to change the Rust language to fit their needs.
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steveklabnik 2535 days ago
> Facebook is actually going to change the Rust language to fit their needs.

... hm?

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cj 2535 days ago
Related:

> Facebook was initially coded in pure, vanilla PHP, but over the years, [they] needed more capabilities [...] so, FB developed their own proprietary programming language based on PHP, which they dubbed Hack."

https://www.quora.com/Is-Facebook-still-coded-in-PHP

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steveklabnik 2535 days ago
Okay, so this is speculation, basically. I thought that may be what the parent was saying, but wasn't sure.
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