In what programming language is GoogleTalk application developed?

Question

Does any one know in which programming language were Google Talk application developed. yes am asking about the windows client application. :)

Answer 1

http://www.google.ro/talk/

• googletalk.exe -> Compiled with: Microsoft Visual C++ 7.0 [Debug]
• gtalkwmp1.dll -> Complied with: Microsoft Visual C++ 7.1 DLL

So GTalk is written in C++

You'll find http://www.peid.info/ pretty useful for this kind of stuff.

Answer 2

According to Steve Yegge, Google is using C++, Java, Python, and JavaScript. So the answer would be C++ :)

Answer 3

Google released an open source library for Google Talk called libjingle, which is written in C++. So logically, the Windows client would probably be C++ too.

Answer 4

Do you mean the client side, or the server side ? The talk protocol is Jingle and libraries are available in C/C++/Java.

Ideally the protocol would be language independent, and consequently both sides (client and server) would not be constrained to a particular language.