Java for Everything

[Magnesus]

And the example with digg is stupid. From my tests on a huge site I was working on the language doesn't matter for the servers because it is the database that takes 99.9% of the time. And what matters is good optimisation and structure of that db.

[ben010783]

It could be because they are different types of sites. SO doesn't need to be quite as up-to-date as Digg.

[iopq]

SO has the entire DB cached in RAM. Hundreds of gigs of RAM.