Comment by mil22
6 hours ago
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.
> 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.
And facebook was written in frikkin PHP. That means it was not C# that made it slow, probably just bad programming.
PHP did make it slow. They eventually wrote a tool to transpile PHP to C and then compile down to native.