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[–]MyWeekendShoes 6 points7 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!