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Asked: 2026-05-18T05:28:59+00:00

What language/framwork does google and others like msn, yahoo, orkut, facebook, twiiter etc use.

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What language/framwork does google and others like msn, yahoo, orkut, facebook, twiiter etc use. Or for the matter of fact any popular website.

I know the following

  1. Facebook – PHP
  2. Yahoo – PHP
  3. Gmail – Java
  4. Twitter – ROR and Scala
  5. Foursquare – Scala

What about others

EDIT:

Google employees are officially allowed to use 4 languages Python, Java, C++, JavaScript. this does not mean they cant use other languages.

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    Google Search – Python (http://python.about.com/b/2006/11/17/creative-search-technology-with-python.htm)

    Google Wave Protocol – Java (http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/ (You can check it out and study it, just 40000 rows 😉 ))

    Google Wave Front-End – Google Web Toolkit (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/1.6/examples/)

    Google Moderator Front-End – Google Web Toolkit (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/1.6/examples/)

    Google Maps Front-End – JavaScript (Which language is used in google maps frontend?)

    Gmail Frontend – JavaScript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Code_changes)

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