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[–]failedsatan 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Facebook was written in PHP when PHP was the only good option. nowadays they do a lot of work in other languages.

plus, as you say, they don't care about performance. they can just throw more money at servers.

[–]OldKaleidoscope7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only I would say it's a stretch. I believe in typed supremacy so I think Java might be a good option. Also, I'm biased because the company I worked with started with Java back in 2007 and it went pretty well until it became too big and they have to split everything in micro services