1 year ago

Wednesday, social media giant https://investor.fb.com/home/default.aspx announced that it is now officially using https://www.rust-lang.org/ as a server-side programming language. It is one of four languages that the company’s developers are “officially” using, joining C++, Python and Facebook’s own internal rewrite of PHP, https://hacklang.org/.

Though Rust, C++, Hack, and Python are the only official supported programming languages for server-side use, outliers exist when needed.

Community Supported Languages, aka “long tail” languages, are advised against by the social media company, unless the team itself has a high amount of experience with the language.

The expectation of high-quality developer experiences comes along with labeling something a “supported” language at Meta.