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by 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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