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> Nice writeup, can anyone explain why fb continues to use php over other statically types languages?

When you have a large existing codebase in one language, migrating it to a new language means a massive amount of time wasted retraining engineers, rewriting code, etc. You lose a lot of productivity and spend a lot of money for possibly little gain.



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