Ask HN: How was Vimeo built?

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I really like the look/feel and light-weight design of vimeo.

Would anyone mind giving their 2 cents on what languages it was built using, or how it was built?

Thanks :)

it uses mootools for a lot of the pretty UI stuff, and it's ruby on rails.

Thanks a lot, pclark. I really appreciate the input :)

pclark got the core of it. As for look/feel: part of it is a really concerted effort on the part of the guys that designed it to keep things as streamlines as possible; part of it is that they went over-the-top to add fun cartoony art everywhere.

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