Sometimes the best tool for the job is the oldest one in the toolshed.

For its new Moments photo-sharing application, Facebook eschewed the crop of currently fashionable mobile development platforms in favor of coding in the venerable C++ programming language.

As a result, the company is able to maintain a single code base for much of the app, which runs on both iOS and Android devices.

“It is somewhat of a surprising choice,” admitted Ashwin Bharambe, one of the Facebook developers who created Moments, about the use of C++. “There are more and more people trying to do this in order to share code across different platforms.”

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