What is (and was) Google tech? I naively thought Google didn't have a praised stack.
Back then it was mostly Java, Python and C++.
They even made a Java-based framework that would generate Javascript, GWT. Orkut was rewritten to use in 2009.
Re:Orkut.com
by neuronexmachina on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:57PM
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I used to use GWT. It was such a mess to work with, but an interesting mess.
Well it used what was available at the time. Which was not a lot, that it even worked is insane
We still have it running somewhere. Not pretty but zero issues for a largish GUI
But also a highly specific Linux runtime environment, distributed storage, etc.
Interestingly, the first version used ASP.NET, visible in the .aspx domains, which really deviated from other Google tech.