What Programing Language are the Largest Website Written In?
Xah Lee
maybe this will be of interest.
〈What Programing Language Are the Largest Website Written In?〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/website_lang_popularity.html
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i don't remember how, but today i suddenly got reminded that Facebook
is written in PHP. So, on the spur of the moment, i twitted:
“Remember folks, the world's largest sites {Facebook, Wikipedia,
“Yahoo!”, etc} are written in Pretty Home Page!”
and followed with:
“To Chinese friends, what's Baido, QQ, Taobao, Sina written in?”
Then, this question piqued me, even i tried to not waste my time. But
it overpowered me before i resisted, becuase i quickly spend 15 min to
write this list (with help of Google):
1 Google ◇ Java
2 Facebook ◇ PHP
3 YouTube ◇ Python
4 Yahoo! ◇ PHP
5 blogger.com ◇ Java
6 baidu.com ◇ C/C++. perl/python/ruby
7 Wikipedia ◇ PHP
8 Windows Live live.com
9 Twitter.com ◇ Scala and Ruby?
10 QQ.com ◇ ?
11 MSN.com ◇ ?
13 LinkedIn ◇ PHP?
15 TaoBao.com ◇ ?
16 sina.com.cn ◇ ?
17 Amazon.com ◇ ?
18 WordPress.com ◇ PHP
22 eBay.com ◇ ?
23 yandex.ru (Russian) ◇ ?
24 Bing ◇ ?
27 Microsoft.com ◇ ?
28 网易 163.com ◇ ?
29 PayPal.com ◇ Java?
31 新浪微博 weibo.com ◇ ?
32 Flickr.com ◇ ?
34 mail.ru ◇ ?
35 Craiglist.org ◇ perl
36 FC2.com ◇ ?
38 Apple.com ◇ Objective J?
39 imdb.com ◇ ?
41 VKontakte.ru ◇ ?
43 搜狐网 sohu.com ◇ ?
44 Ask.com ◇ ?
45 BBC.co.uk ◇ ?
46 tumblr.com ◇ PHP
47 LiveJasmin.com (porn) ◇ ?
48 xvideos.com (porn) ◇ ?
…
56 土豆网 Todou.com ◇ ?
81 YouPorn.com ◇ ?
StumbleUpon.com ◇ PHP, Perl, C++
…
the numbers is site ranking, from alexa.com. (missing ones are mostly
duplicates, such as google japan, google india, etc.)
i think notable interest is that twitter stands out, with Scala and
Ruby.
Those with perl are probably going back to the first dot com era (aka
Web 1.0, ~1995 to ~2002). At that time, perl was basically the only
game in town (secondarily: Java). (i don't recall what amazon and ebay
were in... was it perl or php? how about imdb.com?)
most php follows starting in early 2000s, that's when PHP quietly
surpassed perl in all battle fronts.
it'd be interesting to know what some of the chinese sites uses, and
porn sites (e.g. livejasmin, xvideos, youporn)
as for Microsoft sites... are they in C/C++ and or dotnet?
Xah
ccc31807
> maybe this will be of interest.
>
> 〈What Programing Language Are the Largest Website Written In?〉http://xahlee.org/comp/website_lang_popularity.html
About five years ago, I did some pretty extensive research, and
concluded that the biggest sites were written serverside with JSP.
Obviously, this wouldn't include The Biggest site, but if you were a
big, multinational corporation, or listed on the NYSE, you used JSP
for your web programming.
I doubt very seriously PHP is used for the biggest sites -- I'd still
guess JSP, or maybe a MS technology (not VB), but it's only a guess.
CC.
igotmumps
I believe Facebook uses a PHP/C compiler. i.e. the site is written in
PHP, but compiled down to C/C++...
MZ
gavino
facebook is php
myspace is microsoft
aol was tcl and aolserver c embedding tcl interp
priceline is lisp
reddit is python was lisp orig
amazon was perl
livejournal was perl
ccc31807
> facebook is php
>
> myspace is microsoft
>
> aol was tcl and aolserver c embedding tcl interp
>
> priceline is lisp
>
> reddit is python was lisp orig
>
> amazon was perl
>
> livejournal was perl
Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very important,
but so are other kinds of companies. What do manufacturing companies
use, like Ford and Toyota, energy companies like BP and Exxon,
pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, and so on? What
about the big retailers, Sears, WalMart, Target, etc.?
CC.
Xah Lee
thanks Kevin. Rarely seen you useful. :)
Xah
Tim Bradshaw
>
> Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very important,
> but so are other kinds of companies. What do manufacturing companies
> use, like Ford and Toyota, energy companies like BP and Exxon,
> pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, and so on? What
> about the big retailers, Sears, WalMart, Target, etc.?
A more important metric is how critical the web presence is to the
company. For Amazon, say, it's pretty critical, so what they do is
likely to be interesting: if their site is broken they're not making
any money. For Toyota, say, well, an outage would probably be
embarrassing, but it's not anything like as critical to them.
Unfortunatly I suspect that with web stuff as with other stuff, the
answer is that it entirely depends. I am endlessly horrified by the
poor state of software that is really critical to large companies.