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[โ€“] uphillbothways@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

but like, wasn't facebook written in php and didn't it kind of take over, about as much as any programming whatzit ever has? (not saying that was a good thing, but yeah...)

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Facebook has used Hack for a long time now, which is very different from PHP these days. It's entirely statically typed with a bunch of advanced features that PHP doesn't have.

Yahoo used a lot of PHP too, back when they were still very popular.