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bloglines is entirely C++. I remember seeing some interview where the guy said it was critical to beating their competitors. They were all busy trying to scal

bloglines is entirely C++. I remember seeing some interview where the guy said it was critical to beating their competitors. They were all busy trying to scale while bloglines already worked.

quasimojo 18y ago
and where are they now
- jgalvez 18y ago
  Well, I think the only major competitor to Bloglines these days is Google Reader which is in... C++ as well. Well, I would guess also probably a few bits of Python in between. Any googlers here? :)
  - henning 18y ago
    How do you know it's C++ and not Java?
tlrobinson 18y ago
Interesting. That seems to be the exact opposite of pg's view that Lisp was one of Viaweb's main competitive advantages, because it allowed them to rapidly add new features. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
- jgalvez 18y ago
  I think Lisp is reasonably fast, possibly as fast as C++.