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Taking PHP Seriously
- 0xmohit 10y agoDid Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Etsy, Baidu, Box, and more recently Slack all succeed in spite of using PHP? Would they all have been better off expressing their application in Ruby? Erlang? Haskell? WhatsApp uses Erlang [0]. There's nothing wrong with PHP or even Python, but these languages are overly flexible and require a disciplined programmer. [0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3026758/inside-erlang-the-rare-programming-language-behind-whatsapps-success https://www.fastcompany.com/3026758/inside-erlang-the-rare-p...