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Stack Overflow uses windows? Any particular reason to do this?



The founders and first devs were proficient in it.

It works well enough for our needs (e.g. C# has one of the best GCs on the market), and no one is a platform/language zealot, so we keep on using it.

Stuff we added later runs on other platforms, as needed (e.g. we run redis and elastic search on CentOS, our server monitoring tool Bosun is written in go...)


Written in C#


Joel was a former product manager at Microsoft.




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