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		nostrademons on Oct 7, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask YC: Does your choice of language/platform play... They'll still have to rewrite. The "infrastructure" he was referring to was GoogleFS/BigTable/MapReduce and their other massively-distributed backends. You don't have access to them if you aren't Google. I've heard that GWT isn't actually used by any notable (= public has heard of it) Google project. Could be wrong though; no inside information.

nickb on Oct 9, 2007 [–]

What about Gmail and Calendars? I was under an impression that both of those use it. Maybe even Google Reader... not sure.

nostrademons on Oct 10, 2007 | [–]

Gmail doesn't: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56768. Dunno about Calendars or Reader.

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