alt Hacker NewsThe original Orkut site was written in C# - it was very slow and couldn't handle the growth. Orkut was only a big success in countries like Brazil and India where internet connections were already so poor that nobody noticed how slow the site was.
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phplovesong • today at 5:14 PM
And facebook was written in frikkin PHP. That means it was not C# that made it slow, probably just bad programming.
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> The original Orkut site was written in C# - it was very slow and couldn't handle the growth.
These are orthogonal facts presented as if they were related.