Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad" <ola.fosheim.grostad+dlang at gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 05:53:41 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> It doesn't matter how beautiful a language is, as soon as you 
> put them on the hands of an average developer, the result will 
> be horrible.

:-) I like that comment.

Fortunately most web requests are simple to handle, so PHP and 
Perl are quite sufficient. Both PHP and Perl succeeded originally 
because they embraced C-ish syntax and common C libraries and 
their APIs which made them easy to use casually for programmers 
who dealt with unix/C regularly.

Less to memorize. Low threshold for entry.

> But if the said developers deliver, that is everything the 
> customer cares about.

True. Since many users are now used to PHP-based forums and 
Wordpress and their UIs/feature set, it becomes more difficult to 
push better platforms (with different feature sets).

Almost all full featured forum software packages are written in 
PHP. That is kind of scary.