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sandyarmstrong on Aug 23, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOS

Since Facebook is a big PHP shop, it could be that they have some standard libraries where they prefer to use PHP's version as the canonical implementation. Then they port these to various languages. In some licensing interpretations, this would bind them to the license of the original code.

kennywinker on Aug 23, 2012 [–]

Interesting. Could they be using code written in PHP, but converted to C++ using HipHop?

sandyarmstrong on Aug 23, 2012 | [–]

It's certainly possible to use C++ in native iOS apps. I'd forgotten about HipHop, so that makes a lot of sense.

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