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Most of their code is Hack, and Hack is a superset of PHP (last time I checked all it really adds is static typing and async) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14659729
> all it really adds is static typing and async You make that sound like its not a big deal vs vanilla php.
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MongoDB is like the PHP of databases. I started programming PHP and currently I bash it every time I can, because it is a terrible language. But it is easy to start and do cool stuff, just like mongodb. Initial traction is more important than initial architecture, I guess.
What? Cuz it "sucks"? We all hate PHP, but it works as advertised. I don't agree with the comparison.
So, it started as a shitshow on the back-end and people who had to maintain systems based on it hated it, but it got popular because it was easy to get simple systems up and running with. Then, over time, it slowly became less awful as it was substantially rewritten and large portions of it redesigned. I'd say PHP is a very, very good comparison.
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> all it really adds is static typing and async You make that sound like its not a big deal vs vanilla php.
It's really not. All the sadness and broken-ness of PHP is still there.
to avoid schema migrations
And in turn put the schema (actually multiple versions of it) in your application making it more complex. Since Relational Algebra was invented in 1970 we were unable to find a better representation of a relational data, there were many attempts but so far they failed (except for very specialized uses). So I'm inclined to believe it's here to stay. JSON is basically just step backwards back to the XML Database[1] and…