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		liquid153 on May 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com Do they still use PHP on backend. If so ick

benbristow on May 8, 2020 | [–]

AFAIK they use 'Hack', a language designed to be very similar to PHP.

https://hacklang.org/

PHP is a lot better than it used to be now though! It's got a bad rep but newer versions are fast and surprisingly modern-feeling.

innocenat on May 8, 2020 | [–]

They use Hack if you really needed to know.

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