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by asdasf 4672 days ago
It was always both as far as I know.

"For Facebook Chat, we rolled our own subsystem for logging chat messages (in C++) as well as an epoll-driven web server (in Erlang)"

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The rumor was that it had been rewritten in 100% C++...
No idea. Sounds like the kind of thing that gets started based on a misunderstanding like someone saying "we wrote that in C++" in reference to part of the chat system. Either way, my point was that facebook isn't a PHP shop. Erlang/C++ or just plain C++, neither is PHP.