[cmelbye]

PHP is not the only language in use at Facebook right now...

https://github.com/facebook

They invented Thrift, I think they'll figure it out.

[lttlrck]

Of all Facebook's accomplishments why is Thrift the one that you think makes this a non-issue?

[cmelbye]

They literally built it to solve problems like this. From the project page, it was designed to provide "scalable cross-language services development".