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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by maxklein on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:41PM (#299563)
Mibbit is written in C? So you run it at home? How do you pay for the bandwidth?
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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by axod on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @12:55PM (#299578)
Not quite, Mibbit is in Java. I took "c" to mean "currently unpopular non-hyped language". Much like Java is... Mibbit runs on pretty much a single server at the moment so it's been a similar scaling exercise.

I'd definitely agree though with the OP... having limitations forces you to look at better ways to do stuff, and ways to squeeze every last drop out of the hardware/resources.

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Re:Shoestring Budget? Starting to feel growth issues on you... by jrockway on Wednesday September 10, 2008 @07:18AM (#300271)
I took "c" to mean "currently unpopular non-hyped language". Much like Java is.

Java is a popular, hyped language. It's just not a very good one.

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