Dissociated Press » c++ http://dissociatedpress.net Linux, Open Source, and Tech Journalism Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:59:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Facebook Friends PHP: Introducing HipHop http://dissociatedpress.net/2010/02/03/facebook-friends-php-introducing-hiphop/ http://dissociatedpress.net/2010/02/03/facebook-friends-php-introducing-hiphop/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:07:57 +0000 Joe Brockmeier http://www.dissociatedpress.net/?p=1387 Continue reading →]]> HIpHop Logo

Are you a fan of PHP? Facebook is. The company has been working behind the scenes to create HipHop, a runtime compiler for PHP to improve the language’s performance on Facebook’s servers. The company is also friending the rest of the PHP community with its work by releasing its project as open source.

Rumors have been flying for a while, and the news was confirmed on Monday by ReadWriteWeb. Facebook gave a talk on Tuesday night about HipHop to introduce the technology at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, CA.

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