In Facebook Application development PHP is not a new word but a simple language, which is easy to write, learn, read and even debug. With several kinds of tools being introduced in PHP it has become incessantly changing computer language. Recently added into its family is also Hiphop. It was created to make PHP applications more faster and easy in any FacebookApplication Development.
HipHop has proved to be very productive for developers as it has reduced the usage of CPU on servers by at least 50 per cent depending on number of web pages. This also makes overhead cost less as lesser CPU means less servers. Facebook says it is a code transformer which could transform PHP code to C++ and then use g ++ to complete this transformation. It also improves performance for source code transformation as HipHop sacrifices few rare seen features. It also has code transformer, reapplication of PHP’s runtime system, and many rewritten extensions which are most popularly used on PHP.
Besides, what make HipHop best are the programming languages like Python, Pearl and Ruby. These languages are very easy for the programmers to code and can also be repeated on the PHP applications. However it is also said that developing big applications with PHP is very difficult but there is a solution too for it, with an easy way is transforming the complex coding of PHP into simple C++ coding.
HipHop has proved to be a very interesting technology and as many attempts have been made to the same in different ways it has become very challenging and garnered a great success too.
