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Does anyone know what tumblr is written in? I have been trying to figure it out.

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I heard it's written in Ruby on Rails, but I don't have any solid proof.

no
Thats what I was thinking
HD
Unless someone else has definite proof I am going with no. just because i think he is right.
HD
+1  A: 

The lead developer's blog features a lot of PHP-related material, and Tumblr was advertising for PHP developers a while ago. This isn't strong evidence, but it's possibly indicative and it's the best I could find.

Gian
I wish.... but wouldn't that mean if you went to http://tumblr.com/index.php you wouldn't get an error page. Although that is interesting about the dev blog.
HD
Not necessarily. All the URLs are probably being rewritten anyway. They seem to have gone to reasonable effort hide the implementation language. Also, if it wasn't PHP, why would they be hiring PHP engineers, and why would the lead developer have almost nothing about Ruby on his blog and lots on PHP?
Gian
http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api The code samples are all given in PHP, not in Ruby. I'm pretty confident it's a PHP shop, probably in conjunction with some framework.
Gian
+3  A: 

It's PHP...

http://www.marco.org/55384019

Bellic