CyBWarrior

It’s not a secret : Facebook is built − more or less − in PHP.

PHP : interpreted or pseudo-interpreted code. With small, medium and big applications, it’s a perfect language. But with an application of the size of Facebook, which is a huge and gigantic application used simultaneously by millions of users, it is mandatory to improve it.

Facebook developed a kind of PHP compiler, named HipHop, which translate code from PHP to C++. Thanks to a multiple layers system, the code we write in PHP could therefore be compiled and gain gather speed.

All of this is supposed to be OpenSource, for the happiness of everyone, contrary to other similar products well known…