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Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by pchristensen » Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 12:54 PM UTC

wayne wrote: post #10

It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but... - ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx Thes…

"my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but..."

What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by tocomment » Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 1:15 PM UTC

pchristensen wrote: post #21

wayne wrote: post #10

It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but... - ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx Thes…

"my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but..." What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?

Maybe just have static html pages, web services, and jquery for Ajax. Use whatever you want for the web services (Python)

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by scott_s » Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 2:02 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #18

tptacek wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey, everyone, let's use this content-free comment to vote on how much we like ASP.NET!

Take a look at the html source and see if you think it's an abomination.

I don't. Why should I?

Also, you may want to peek at the HN HTML source.