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Facebook rewrote the interpreter, I am not sure why the world didn’t switch to that
Because it’s Facebook
The world seemed eager enough to use React, though
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.
How much of that is php fault for not contributing and instead continuing development with one developer instead of a large corporate backed project
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.
Very little
Because it was targeted at facebook's unique use case, poorly supported, abd didn't keep up with upstream changes.
Not sure why the php foundation didn’t look at frankenphp and said yes this will be the software for php9
NIH i guess
i think this comment misunderstands what frankenphp and the foundation are.
Not invented here syndrome by PHP Foundation and downstream users use whatever the default is.