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I'm using php for the last 6 months and i can pretty much do anything with it. But BIG websites like Facebook and Twitter don't appear to use php. I want to know what languages they use and why they chose that language over php.
Is Ruby on Rails a good language to build robust and big websites? I've seen RoR's video on youtube mocking other frameworks and languages. Is it really awesome?
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Facebook only uses one language in the Front-end that is JavaScript. JavaScript is the most popular programming language today as it is used by almost every platform in the front-end development that you visit today.
Facebook doesn't use PHP for its core system, at Facebook, they uses C++ heavily on back end system.
When Mark Zuckerberg started work on Facebook in late 2003, he used a programming language called PHP. It was one of the most popular web languages of the day. Facebook now runs on Hack. Hack is a programming language for the HipHop Virtual Machine, created by Facebook as a dialect of PHP.
It began its life as a Ruby on Rails application, and still uses Ruby on Rails to deliver most user-facing web pages. But about a year ago they started replacing some of the back-end Ruby services with applications running on the JVM and written in Scala
Facebook’s technology stack consists of applications written in many languages, including PHP, C, C++, Erlang and others.
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twitter is built on Ruby on Rails
facebook uses PHP primarily, but also relies on "C++, Java, Python and Erlang" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Server_infrastructure
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