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Why aren't they rewriting something similar to Wave instead of just OSSing Wave as-is? Is there secret sauce that they want to sit on for some reason?
by jackowayed 16y ago
Why aren't they rewriting something similar to Wave instead of just OSSing Wave as-is? Is there secret sauce that they want to sit on for some reason?
- sdp 16y agoSpeculation: Google Wave is implemented with heavy use of Google's internal libraries.
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- zitterbewegung 16y agoWasn't google wave an HTML5 app that used google web toolkit? What other libraries would there be?
- lmz 16y agoThe libraries and infrastructure that power the serverside parts?
- wwortiz 16y agoThe backend.
- Raphael 16y agoBigTable.
- chewbranca 16y agoI strongly suspect BigTable is one of the primary reasons they don't want to open source the current release seeing as they mentioned using a Mongo DB backend.
- jessriedel 16y agoThanks for asking this question.
- Jd 16y agoNot speculation. Stated by Google employees on the Protocol lists explicitly last year.
- lars512 16y agoI imagine that the current codebase is tightly coupled to their internal infrastructure. They're writing the stand-alone version for the first time.