Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language would you recommend?

Posted by tiuPapa on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:35PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Note: Not the fb with millions of LOC but the initial one with a few thousands that started it all.

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Re:Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language woul... by taprun on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:49PM (#15393813)

Whatever you are best at writing. Scale doesn't matter much compared to traction early on.

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Re:Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language woul... by hellbreaker on Saturday October 07, 2017 @09:09AM (#15423628)

By far the best comment about programming. It really doesn't matter until you get into the millions of users. And the chances of that are slim. So focus on traction before scale.

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Re:Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language woul... by matchmike1313 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:00PM (#15393906)

I agree with taprun, whatever you are proficient in. I would build it with Node.JS probably or a VueJS front-end with a Go backend.

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Re:Ask HN: If Facebook was written today, what language woul... by meric on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:24PM (#15396339)

Typescript, react?

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