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GMail & JavaScript

July 25, 2010

At the USENIX annual conference last month, Gmail engineer Adam de Boor surprised the audience by noting that the company’s Gmail service was written entirely in JavaScript, and that all of its code, around 443,000 lines worth, was written by hand.

Via PC World and Hacker News (of course).

Scott Williams

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