Orkut.com - Hackdot

Re:Orkut.com by egeozcan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:17PM (#50008719)

What is (and was) Google tech? I naively thought Google didn't have a praised stack.

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Re:Orkut.com by whstl on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:20PM (#50008761)

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.

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Re:Orkut.com by neuronexmachina on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:57PM (#50010363)

I used to use GWT. It was such a mess to work with, but an interesting mess.

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Re:Orkut.com by merb on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:00AM (#50016550)

Well it used what was available at the time. Which was not a lot, that it even worked is insane

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Re:Orkut.com by kamma4434 on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:57AM (#50018751)

We still have it running somewhere. Not pretty but zero issues for a largish GUI

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Re:Orkut.com by lokar on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:00PM (#50012193)

But also a highly specific Linux runtime environment, distributed storage, etc.

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