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Can you source some of these? Genuinely curious.

• minitech 9y ago
  You mean sources for languages used in the implementation of various websites? - Wikipedia is mostly PHP https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki - Wordpress is PHP https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress - Facebook started in PHP https://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-are-used-at-Facebook https://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-are-used-at... - YouTube started in Python https://www.quora.com/Is-YouTube-still-written-in-Python https://www.quora.com/Is-YouTube-still-written-in-Python - GitHub is Ruby https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github https://github.com/showcases/projects-that-power-github - Reddit is mostly Python https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_is_reddit_written_in.3F https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_is_reddit_written_...
  • staticassertion 9y ago
    Yes, exactly. Thanks very much. Do you know if Facebook/ Youtube are still in PHP / Python?
    • noir_lord 9y ago
      Facebook still uses PHP for a lot of templating/page generation, they use a bunch of stuff on the back not least HHVM which was great because it forced/focused the PHP team in a bunch of areas, php7 is a huge I improvement over 5 on just about every metric. It's not amazing as a language still but it's much much better and the ecosystem has really improved, modern PHP leveraging good composer components is pretty good. Even some good static analysis tooling these days.
  • icey 9y ago
    GitHub is _mostly_ Ruby -- there's Go, Python, C, and I think some Haskell in production on the website (there used to be some Erlang in there too, but iirc that's gone now). The Visual Studio and Unity extensions are written in C#. The new GitHub Desktop is written entirely in Typescript.