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Isn't Facebook still using PHP?


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




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