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geerlingguy · 2020-09-14 19:26:57

PHP had Facebook... sorta.

ricree | karma 862 | avg karma 2.46 · | 2012-06-22 16:31:15+00:00

Didn't facebook largely reimplement php, though?

buboard | karma 6145 | avg karma 1.29 · | 2020-06-10 15:50:42+00:00

facebook was built and grew in php tho

Killswitch | karma 2178 | avg karma 3.12 · | 2013-10-12 12:40:19

Facebook still uses PHP bro...

philwelch | karma 36168 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2012-05-20 01:36:01

But I thought Facebook ran on PHP!

ygra | karma 5786 | avg karma 1.96 · | 2012-11-23 02:32:19

Facebook is about equally PHP and C++ these days.

bausshf | karma 182 | avg karma 0.81 · | 2018-04-05 07:25:28

I love how you mention Facebook, yet Facebook moved away from traditionally PHP and made their own PHP engine and has a lot of native code in C++.

Jyaif | karma 2148 | avg karma 1.99 · | 2017-10-18 12:53:21

facebook, php ?

xerophtye | karma 469 | avg karma 0.81 · | 2014-03-21 08:18:25+00:00

now i may be wrong, but isn't Facebook on PHP?

aflag | karma 1715 | avg karma 1.63 · | 2023-02-06 03:54:06

From what I hear facebook is also mostly hack, which is a similar language to php. I believe it is even backwards compatible with php (or at least it used to be).

gfosco | karma 2884 | avg karma 4.9 · | 2014-04-30 20:06:26

I know PHP isn't a favorite around here, but it still accounts for (what was recently) a majority of all web apps that use Facebook. We built a more modern implementation, using newer language features, and have big plans for it.

illicium | karma 514 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2011-06-30 22:10:12

Facebook is a "PHP+mysql" site.

orangethirty | karma 3518 | avg karma 1.87 · | 2013-04-29 02:00:51+00:00

Does facebook still use PHP?

benbristow | karma 2878 | avg karma 2.61 · | 2015-02-09 18:06:15+00:00

I thought Facebook made their own PHP fork type of language.

MontagFTB | karma 1728 | avg karma 5.67 · | 2021-04-26 02:01:41+00:00

Wasn’t a lot of Facebook’s initial implementation php? I seem to recall they moved off it, or wrote a specialized compiler to speed it up.

dr_zoidberg | karma 1814 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2015-12-08 23:34:03+00:00

Could you explain your point? Given it's success, I can't see why PHP wasn't the right tool for Facebook.

TazeTSchnitzel | karma 26116 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2018-12-15 19:50:01+00:00

What Facebook did amounts to rewriting PHP itself though.

wodenokoto | karma 15554 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2018-06-28 20:06:40+00:00

Did facebook drop php? I thought they were really vested in it, with their HipHop VM and whatnot.

plorkyeran | karma 7764 | avg karma 3.79 · | 2013-12-19 14:21:31

They abandoned that a while ago. Facebook now runs on HHVM, which is a JIT-compiler implementation of PHP.

leothekim | karma 3507 | avg karma 7.01 · | 2012-06-29 12:19:49+00:00

PHP got Facebook up and running, so it has that to its credit. And that's a huge credit.

As a result, Facebook engineers developed things like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP

Which is an impressive piece of technology, but makes you wonder if Facebook engineers wish their website wasn't written in PHP.

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