Member • Jun 10, 2016
Why was Facebook made in php?
Also why does Facebook not house the file extensions in URL the way Google does?
Member • Jun 10, 2016
Administrator • Jun 10, 2016
Typically, it's the technology founder(s) or initial engineering team is familiar with. Rest, lot of things get rewritten. Facebook engineering team wrote their own version of PHP and majority of their codebase now runs on HHVM.Jash MotaThe most famous example one gets for php is Facebook. Why is it so? Was there a special reason to choose php over ruby and python?
Also why does Facebook not house the file extensions in URL the way Google does?
Member • Jul 21, 2016
Administrator • Jul 21, 2016
That's right. It's called HHVM aka Hip Hop Virtual Machine and they made it available for everyone: <a href="https://hhvm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HHVM | HHVM</a>Muhsin Mohamed PcThey are not working with the PHP version that we are working with. They made some changes in PHP core for their own work use.