It's easy to dismiss Silicon Valley companies as trivial, but if nothing else, SV stands for a culture of experimentation. This, by contrast, sounds like an engineer's nightmare:
> “In other years we hid him [McCune] behind the curtain and slipped him some sandwiches so management wouldn’t know what the investment was,” he jokes.
Maybe a decades-long attention span wouldn't have been required in the first place if the company in question gave their engineers better support.
This seems an unequivocal improvement for Facebook, since they're unwilling to move away from PHP. The better question is why would anyone else choose to build their company on this?
> “In other years we hid him [McCune] behind the curtain and slipped him some sandwiches so management wouldn’t know what the investment was,” he jokes.
Maybe a decades-long attention span wouldn't have been required in the first place if the company in question gave their engineers better support.