1. There are many different teams of "devs" that each do their own thing ... but as far as I'm aware — The main site is still mostly PHP and Java, with perhaps

1. There are many different teams of "devs" that each do their own thing ... but as far as I'm aware — The main site is still mostly PHP and Java, with perhaps a bit of Node and Go here and there. The iOS folks, are naturally Objective-C, and the Android folks are Java. Interactive News is Rails and Node, with a touch of Haskell whenever Hinton throws it in the mix ;) Graphics is as static as possible, with Node tools for pre-building and pre-baking. 2. As you can read for yourself here: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-our-mellow-dude.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/opinion/dowd-dont-harsh-ou... ... Maureen Dowd is clearly down with groovy, far-out technologies of the mind-expanding sort.