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Cracks in the Foundation (PHP Advent)Cracks in the Foundation (PHP Advent)Posted Dec 20, 2011 15:32 UTC (Tue) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)In reply to: Cracks in the Foundation (PHP Advent) by sorpigal Parent article: Cracks in the Foundation (PHP Advent)
> At what point do you get so much NIHitis that you think you should be writing your own compilers and VMs for a crappy web language instead of switching to a non-crappy one?
Well, if it's easier/cheaper to write a better implementation of the language than to switch the language, it's clearly the right thing to do, isn't it?
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Cracks in the Foundation (PHP Advent) Posted Dec 21, 2011 13:59 UTC (Wed) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258) [Link]
[wildspeculation]Maybe Facebook found that they get off cheaper by investing in a handful of people who know how to write compilers and virtual machines so that they can continue to let dime-a-dozen PHP coders do the bulk of the frontend work.[/wildspeculation]
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