> with multi billions revenue and nearly a bln users, yeah, I'd say it turned out pretty well for them.
If you want to attribute the lions share of success of Facebook to PHP, rather than the social effect and being in the right time in the right place, or other work put into it, that's fine with me. But I'll still disagree.
> they "threw away the rest" is not an argument against PHP.
If replacing the backend (compiler, libs, etc) because it's so buggy and does not scale at all, is not an argument, than nothing will be ... and I'm going to stop here and let this die.
If you want to attribute the lions share of success of Facebook to PHP, rather than the social effect and being in the right time in the right place, or other work put into it, that's fine with me. But I'll still disagree.
> they "threw away the rest" is not an argument against PHP.
If replacing the backend (compiler, libs, etc) because it's so buggy and does not scale at all, is not an argument, than nothing will be ... and I'm going to stop here and let this die.