Facebook hired dedicated people to invent their own hack-language over PHP to deal with PHPs problems.
Sure, a business can succeed with a crappy language. But that doesn't mean the language has no impact, otherwise Facebook would have just sticked to it.
I don't believe that I said language had no impact. What I said was, "the particular technology used just doesn't make the difference I would like it to".
Sure, a business can succeed with a crappy language. But that doesn't mean the language has no impact, otherwise Facebook would have just sticked to it.