• @kautau@lemmy.world
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    08 months ago

    Plus, Facebook literally forked PHP and still uses it, and is one of the most popular sites on the internet

    • @danA
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      8 months ago

      Modern-day Hack (the language PHP uses) looks pretty different to PHP, and the runtime is a complete rewrite rather than a fork. HHVM uses C++ while PHP uses C.

      • @kautau@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        That’s true, it would be more accurate to say that much of the web uses PHP or Hack, a PHP derivative. I think I was moreso thinking along the lines of the previous comments about the hatred for PHP being more of a meme at this point than a reality