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by bandrami 225 days ago
Isn't Facebook still using PHP?
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They forked PHP into Hack. They've diverged pretty far by this point (especially with data structures), but it maintains some of PHPs quirks and request-oriented runtime. It's jitted by HHVM. Both Hack and HHVM are open-source, but I'm not aware of any major users outside Meta.
Compiled PHP. I'm pretty sure they ran the numbers.
Hell, I still get Perl CGI contracts so I'm in no place to talk