A short survey of websites and programming languages

by pepgma 12.7.08 0 comments programming web

This is a list of the programing languages some popular websites were originally written on:

• Reddit was written in Python
• Twitter was written in Ruby
• Digg was written in PHP
• Facebook was written in PHP
• GMail was written in C++ ref1
• Blogger was written in Java ref1 ref2 ref3
• Google was probably written partially on C++
• Flickr was written in PHP
• del.icio.us was written in Perl