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Why is facebook still using PHP? And how many lines of code do you think the facebook website has?

8th Apr 2017, 2:08 PM
Vishnu ks
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Facebook converts their PHP code to C++ in order to save on performance.
19th Apr 2017, 12:51 AM
Daniel William Rutter
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PHP has a lot of great advantages. It has around 100 million lines of code.!!!!
9th Apr 2017, 7:12 AM
Vishnu ks
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Because PHP is best for such site. Facebook uses other languages too for facial recognition in photos, patter recognition in Page icons and for a lot of other stuff. After google facebook code has the most lines. I don't remember number of lines in code.
8th Apr 2017, 3:19 PM
Ravindra Sisodia
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umm someone told me site made in php never hang or down on server maybe its true b'coz so many user are on fb simultaneously but the server never show busy , like my colg's website during result announcement
9th Apr 2017, 6:23 AM
Arsh Verma
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