The original Orkut site was written in C# - it was very slow and couldn't handle the growth. Orkut was only a big success in countries like Brazil and India where internet connections were already so poor that nobody noticed how slow the site was.

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egeozcan 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The original Orkut site was written in C# - it was very slow and couldn't handle the growth.

These are orthogonal facts presented as if they were related.

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phplovesong 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And facebook was written in frikkin PHP. That means it was not C# that made it slow, probably just bad programming.

	▲	ahknight 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		PHP did make it slow. They eventually wrote a tool to transpile PHP to C and then compile down to native.