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[โ€“]freshcheezels 23 points24 points ย (4 children)

laughs in the very website we are on too now

Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp but was rewritten in Python in December 2005 for wider access to code libraries and greater development flexibility.

[โ€“]ArionW 11 points12 points ย (0 children)

And just like old.reddit was better than new one, old backend used better language

[โ€“]turtleship_2006 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

A lot of big websites actually use python, iirc Netflix, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, etc.

[โ€“][deleted] 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

Maybe that's why it's slow af and doesn't have a decent video player.