What programming language does facebook use

Question

I don t know much about programming languages  but am interested in a career with facebook  so I was wondering if someone could tell me what programming language facebook uses   Also  do any other social networking sites use the same language

User · Answer

The language used by Facebook is PHP      Also  do any other social networking   sites use the same language    The other one I know of is friendster

User · Answer

might be surprised to know   its PHP   read all about it here

User · Answer

Facebook uses the LAMP stack  so if you want to get a career with them you re going to want to focus on that  In addition they often have C   and or Java listed in their requirements as well   One of the postings includes the following requirements    Expertise with C   and or Java Knowledge of Perl or PHP or Python Knowledge of relational databases and SQL  preferably MySQL and Oracle   Another      Expertise in PHP  JavaScript  and CSS    Another    Knowledge of Perl or PHP or Python Knowledge of relational databases and SQL  preferably MySQL Knowledge of web technologies  XHTML  JavaScript Experience with C  C   a plus   Source  http   www facebook com careers    careers department php dept engineering     Also  do any other social networking sites use the same language    Some other companys that use PHP LAMP Stack      DeviantArt  more focused on art  Twitter  for Front-End development  Google

User · Answer

Since nobody has mentioned it  I d like to add that Facebook chat is written in Erlang

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