Does anyone else find it sorta ironically odd that one of the masterminds behind this great stuff is now a .... gasp Facebook ... employee?? my heart kinda aches.
It's all entertainment, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Would you be referring to the business morals or technical requirements of Facebook? You need a lot of good hacks to deal with large bulks of data. For example: https://github.com/facebook/warp
I heard Goooogle developed Go partially because they were fed up with the time taken up compiling massive C programs.