Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed

VonGuard writes "Facebook has gotten fed up with the speed of PHP. The company has been working on a skunkworks project to rewrite the PHP runtime, and on Tuesday of this week, they will be announcing the availability of their new PHP runtime as an open source project. The rumor around this began last week when the Facebook team invited some of the core PHP contributors to their campus to discuss some new open source project. I've written up everything I know about this story on the SD Times Blog."

Comments

Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C

[TheRaven64]

Meh. I write my code in Smalltalk and if it's not fast enough then I hack on the compiler and runtime until it is.

How about...

[Hurricane78]

...rewriting your site, to use a real language, instead?

I had to use PHP for 4 years, and I’d rather die than to do it again. (Same thing with the Internet Explorer.)
Get yourself a real language. One that makes sense! One with an actual spec. One that makes sense! (Has to be said twice!)
Even Python would make more sense. Java would be a professional choice. And if you want to get futuristic, I’d recommend Haskell. ^^
Everything is better than PHP. (Ok, except perhaps Intercal/Malbolge/Piet. Perhaps...)

Re:Screw PHP, I write everything in C

[AikonMGB]

I don't know why this has not yet been linked, but... obligatory XKCD reference

Aikon-