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		tpmx on Sept 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 25 Years of PHP [video] Does anyone know what language(s) they tend to use for more "backend" style services?

summarity on Sept 8, 2019 [–]

Mostly Hack and C++ as far as I can tell from glancing at their recent ACM paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3338112

tpmx on Sept 8, 2019 | [–]

Nice, a very fresh source (August 2019)!

"C++ is the main language of choice for backend services. There are 10s of millions of lines each of mobile and backend code."

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