A lot of web 2.0 sites seem very quick and seamless. I was curious as to what programming languages websites like wordpress, flickr, campaignmonitor, etc use, both from the client side and from the server side.
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Many use PHP or Python, though many others (like StackOverflow) use Microsoft tools. The client side language is mostly Javascript, though some sites are done in Flash or Silverlight.
Javier Badia
2009-06-19 19:31:42
What "Microsoft tools" does SO use? Isn't it written in Perl?
musicfreak
2009-06-19 19:39:37
And you can imagine HTML as the workhorse all of these rode in on.
T Pops
2009-06-19 19:40:13
@musicfreak: SO is almost all MSFT: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/
Nosredna
2009-06-19 19:42:38
@musicfreak: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/
roosteronacid
2009-06-19 19:44:20
@musicfreak - lol
Jason Watts
2009-06-19 19:50:09
Just kidding... Haha I swear I read somewhere it was written in Perl.
musicfreak
2009-06-19 19:59:43
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Most web2.0 sites use a combination of languages. Some of the most popular include AJAX, Ruby On Rails, Python and good, old-fashioned PHP.
Speaking for WordPress in particular, PHP is the primary language used.
leadingzero
2009-06-19 19:32:04
AJAX is a technology, not a language. And Ruby on Rails is the Ruby language with the Rails framework.
Javier Badia
2009-06-19 19:33:09
@reyjavikvi and what are Flash and Silverlight if not technologies? They're certainly not strictly typed languages...
leadingzero
2009-06-19 19:37:58
Ajax isn't even a technology but a method of using asynchonous javascript calls to interact with the server.
JoshBerke
2009-06-19 19:50:58
+1
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client side would be JavaScript, most of the web 2.0 companies use PHP, Ruby (Rails) and Python..Java and .NET is also used but the biggest players like facebook and digg use PHP while twitter uses Ruby on rails
SQLMenace
2009-06-19 19:32:51
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php, ruby on rails, and python are trendy choices. Some also use Java. Flickr and wordpress are PHP. Twitter is ruby/rails and scala.
Ben Hughes
2009-06-19 19:33:00
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It is not about the language, it is about what it does. Basically using some form of Ajax to not do full page post backs.
It is also what it is about...like collaboration, crowdsourcing etc etc
SQLMenace
2009-06-19 20:02:36
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MySpace - .NET (using BlueDragon)
Facebook - PHP
Youtube - Python
StackOverflow - C#
Wordpress - PHP
Flickr - PHP
Basecamp - Ruby on Rails
CampaignMonitor - Python
Twitter - Scala
Zanoni
2009-06-19 19:50:30
MySpace is not using ColdFusion but runs on .NET for at least the last 3 years now by using BlueDragon technology, You will still see CFM extensions but that is just mapped in IIS so that people would not have broken bookmarks
SQLMenace
2009-06-19 19:55:59
Here you go http://highscalability.com/myspace-architecture they moved to .NEt from ColdFusion because CF was too resource intensive
SQLMenace
2009-06-19 19:57:32
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You can find out specifics (usually) by plugging some URLs into builtwith.com
Steve Paulo
2009-06-19 19:54:24