Ask HN: What programming language is color.com built in?
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The iPhone client is written in Objective C.
The Android client is written in Java.
The webserver appears to be written against the JVM, so it could either be plain Java, JRuby, Jython, Scala, or any other language that runs in the JVM.
DJ Patil however, was LinkedIn's Chief Scientist, and LinkedIn is a heavy Java/J2EE shop, so my guess is that it's vanilla J2EE.
The Android client is written in Java.
The webserver appears to be written against the JVM, so it could either be plain Java, JRuby, Jython, Scala, or any other language that runs in the JVM.
DJ Patil however, was LinkedIn's Chief Scientist, and LinkedIn is a heavy Java/J2EE shop, so my guess is that it's vanilla J2EE.
One clue is that a 404 page (e.g. http://color.com/asdf) says the webserver is "powered by Jetty": http://jetty.codehaus.org/jetty/
Jetty "provides an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container". Here is the wikipedia page for Java Servlet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Servlet So the answer seems to be Java.
Jetty "provides an HTTP server, HTTP client, and javax.servlet container". Here is the wikipedia page for Java Servlet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Servlet So the answer seems to be Java.
What makes you think there's any server-side code running at all? It looks quite straightforward to me.
Jetty server, so presumably Java.
Hosted on EC2.
With Dyn (DynDNS) handling DNS.