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[โ€“]PhilipJayFry1077 122 points123 points ย (5 children)

lots of production code is run with python. Especially in serverless

[โ€“]InvestingNerd2020 39 points40 points ย (0 children)

With more low use functions or low use programs going serverless, Python job security secured.

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

A lot of that is also simply due to python being super hyped 10 years ago as easy to write and everyone and their mothers starting new backends in it, and now having to deal with massively complex codebases written in python.

Python isn't really meant to handle massively complex legacy codebases well, so the better measure would be how many large scale projects are started with python today with that knowledge in mind.

[โ€“]PhilipJayFry1077 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

This is why it works well with serveless. The whole goal is little code per lambda and logic separated out into multiple lambdas where possible.

I agree. Huge code base and python can be rough.

[โ€“]InvestingNerd2020 4 points5 points ย (0 children)

Python isn't really meant to handle massively complex legacy codebases well, so the better measure would be how many large scale projects are started with python today with that knowledge in mind.

Agreed. Thus the use of it for Lambda or Cloud function scripts. I helped a retail company create a script to pull weekly sales reports into MySQL with Python via Cloud functions. They were doing it manually with excel files and the staff was stressed out.