24 March 2014

Facebook Wants To Build A Better PHP With Hack. Spoiler: It’s Really Good.



hack-featured

10 years ago, in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook was launched. Initially, it was just Mark Zuckerberg hacking away at a codebase which consisted exclusively of PHP code, interacting with a MySQL database. Since then, it has ballooned in size, both in terms of users and developers working on a codebase which is constantly growing. It soon became apparent that whilst PHP was a great language to start Facebook with, it was no longer suited the needs of the company. And thus they created Hack, which is a purpose built language allowing for faster development, larger development teams, whilst maintaining...


Read the full article: Facebook Wants To Build A Better PHP With Hack. Spoiler: It’s Really Good.



No comments:

Post a Comment