What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
This question keeps coming up a lot on Stack Overflow for some reason: What was Stack Overflow built with? Some even wondered if Stack Overflow was built in Ruby on Rails. I consider that a compliment! This question has been covered in some detail in our podcasts, of course, but I know not everyone has…
This question keeps coming up a lot on Stack Overflow for some reason:
What was Stack Overflow built with?
Some even wondered if Stack Overflow was built in Ruby on Rails. I consider that a compliment!
This question has been covered in some detail in our podcasts, of course, but I know not everyone has time to listen to a bunch of audio footage to find the answer to their question. So, in that spirit, here’s the technology “stack” of Stack Overflow, the stuff Jarrod, Geoff, and I used to build it:
framework | Microsoft ASP.NET |
language | C# |
development environment | Visual Studio |
web framework | ASP.NET MVC |
browser framework | jQuery |
database | SQL Server 2008 |
data access layer | LINQ to SQL |
source control | Subversion (now Mercurial through Kiln) |
compare tool | Beyond Compare |
source control integration | VisualSVN (now, VisualHg) |
We have a few other minor dependencies as well, such as ReCaptcha, DotNetOpenId, and the WMD control (which we subsequently rewrote), but that’s about it.
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Is this info still true ?
Is this information still true ? or Any addition or changes ?
Please update the technology stack if you are still using these. thanks.
is the info written here is still the same or updated / changed?
Awesome!
People legit want to know if you still rely on JQuery, SVN and BeyondCompare
You will find a more updated answer here : https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-and-technologies-are-used-to-build-the-stack-exchange-network