neclimdul comments on PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

because it didn't support the same features and ended up being a fork of the language called hack.

since it wasnt a replacement and would have required lot of software to be modified or in some cases like wordpress and drupal largely rewritten it never saw wide adoption.

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[+] dudeface@lemmy.world -26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Very little

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[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago

Zero.

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[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

the foundation didn't exist so that one staff member didn't exist. the foundation doesn't direct development either, they sponsor development and otherwise help to fund the project.

there is not fault either. hhvm was never a php project. they happened in parallel and there was a lot of good feelings at the time and efforts to collaborate. facebook ended up releasing hack lang and the projects drifted apart.

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[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

What, so if Meta can throw enough money at it, they can just hijack the project?

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[–] markjamestwn1301@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 1 week ago

I see your point, but we shouldn't allow corporate interests with comedic amount of economic capital to simply take over an entire project through what basically is ye olde EEE tactics.