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IMDB was written in Perl, notoriously. Seeing that the layout has not changed in ages, I can only assume it's still Perl. I'd imagine a bigger rewrite effort w

by papito 6y ago

IMDB was written in Perl, notoriously. Seeing that the layout has not changed in ages, I can only assume it's still Perl. I'd imagine a bigger rewrite effort would have led to a more slick iteration on the UI, and it seems the legacy HTML templates are still baked in.

yellowapple 6y ago
DuckDuckGo's also written in Perl, and doesn't seem to have any trouble maintaining a reasonably-modern-looking UI.
- Scarblac 6y ago
  Booking.com is also (notoriously) completely written in Perl.
- hpcjoe 6y ago
  And their interview process is apparently, contribute a useful feature to the code base. Which, IMO, is brilliant.
hpcjoe 6y ago
Hmm ... don't conflate the presentation UI with the underlying language. I wrote my companies website (2 jobs ago) in Mojolicious (perl web framework), with a responsive UI, based in part upon bootstrap. Very modern (for the time) UI. All backed by a very fast implementation. IMDB seems plenty fast to me. UI isn't great, but that's more of a presentation layer design thing than a language thing.
- papito 6y ago
  I am not actually talking about the quality of the UI - I am just pointing out that the UI seems to have been the same for years now, and I would think a rewrite from Perl would have changed that. Yes, you can totally swap out the backend, but IMDB codebase is old. HTML and the sprinkled JS (if you look at page source) is probably baked in deep.