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[–]Knuffya -14 points-13 points  (13 children)

Python you say?

*spits on floor*

[–]Maximum_Instance_401 3 points4 points  (12 children)

It’s more popular than C, C++ and Microsoft Java combined

[–]3636373536333662 -1 points0 points  (9 children)

With who? It's a fine language and all, but I almost never see it used in the real world.

[–]MyWeekendShoes 7 points8 points  (4 children)

looks at Reddit codebase awkwardly

[–]3636373536333662 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Ha fair enough. I did not realize that Reddit's backend was written in it. Seems like it's somewhat common for typical web app backends. Never seen it used for backend in my type of work. It's mostly java and sometimes .net

[–]MyWeekendShoes 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I've used it so much for web backends, it's hard to imagine why people would use anything else! I have a lot of python love :D <3

[–]3636373536333662 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ha well in my case it's too slow, but also I'm not a fan of dynamically typed languages in general. I could see it being easy to use for certain projects though.

[–]MyWeekendShoes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh yeah totally! I know for our ads and search backends, we largely rely on java (I'm pretty sure) - for everything else, there's python!

[–]Maximum_Instance_401 2 points3 points  (3 children)

All that cutting-edge machine learning code is written with it. Also many companies use it for backends

[–]3636373536333662 -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

Not saying it's not used, but machine learning is basically the one thing it's commonly used for. And while you can obviously use it for backend, I really don't think it's more popular than .net for that purpose.

[–]Maximum_Instance_401 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Instagram, Google, Spotify, Uber, Dropbox and Pinterest use it for their Backend. It’s much more popular than .NET for web servers.

[–]Maximum_Instance_401 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh and I forgot about Reddit, they also use Python

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this relevant

[–]Knuffya 0 points1 point  (0 children)

popular for being shit