ironically, Yahoo Mail is now rewriting chunks of their C++ backend in Java, because thats what new grads are taught these days instead of C++. Back in 2003 pr

ironically, Yahoo Mail is now rewriting chunks of their C++ backend in Java, because thats what new grads are taught these days instead of C++. Back in 2003 pretty much all of ymail was in C++ with this crazy templating language that generated C++ code. Now it's all PHP and Javascript on the frontend. I assume that's true for other properties as well but i don't know first-hand.