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Facebook Has a New Private Mobile Photo-Sharing App, and They Built It In C++

Posted by timothy on from the fortran-was-busy dept.

jfruh writes: Facebook [on Monday] announced Moments, a new mobile app that uses Facebook's facial recognition technology to let you sync up photos only with friends who are in those photos with you. Somewhat unusually for a new app, the bulk of it is built in the venerable C++ language, which turned out to be easier for building a cross-platform mobile app than other more "modern" languages.

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  1. "Sometimes the best tool for the job is the oldest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    one in the toolshed."

    So, what, it's written in Lisp with some Fortran libraries?

  2. Never underestimate by new_01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    a station wagon full of #ifdefs hurtling down the information superhighway.

  3. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Planet script-kiddy.

  4. Re:LOL by Wraithlyn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Neptune. Software written in C++ on Neptune would be very unusual.

    --
    "Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
  5. On Planet Millenial by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The smart ones only know java , the rest think HTML +CSS are programming languages and javascript is the domain of almost omnipotent god like beings whose radiance they can only begin to emulate.