What language is airbnb coded in?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2526768

by williamldennis • 15 years ago

2 7 15 years ago

news.ycombinator.com

Thanks!

Will

jrallison• 15 years ago

Appears to be Ruby on Rails (looking at their job postings: http://www.airbnb.com/jobs)

williamldennis3• 15 years ago

Thanks!

spooneybarger• 15 years ago

I'm curious as to why you care.

melling• 15 years ago

In theory, and practice, you can build a site in anything with enough effort. Scheme, Scala, Go, Haskell, Clojure, etc. However, it's good to know that other big sites are using your preferred choice. A lot of usage usually indicates mature frameworks, larger user community, ability to Google common issues, find developers as you grow, etc.

What was that YC site that initially used Lisp but switched to Python at the end because they couldn't get something to work?

ericflo• 15 years ago

Reddit.

williamldennis3• 15 years ago

Helpful. Thanks!

williamldennis3• 15 years ago

Looking to build a site with similar functionality and with little coding experience thought it would be helpful to know.

What language is airbnb coded in?

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