For a long time I was convinced they used Erlang for handling all the distributed, concurrent state. I guess not.
Last I checked (and remember right) they used Stackless Python. Very interesting, it can serialize tasklets and send them to another machine to continue executing. Seems no longer maintained though.
at least while ago they used Stackless Python
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Last I checked (and remember right) they used Stackless Python. Very interesting, it can serialize tasklets and send them to another machine to continue executing. Seems no longer maintained though.