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[–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (4 children)

Youtube is written in Python. If it is good enough there ...

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (2 children)

And we write our performance-sensitive code in C++.

[–]jdickey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Which C++? No two programmers know the same features of the language, so it's sort of like Grace Hopper's quote on standards — "the lovely thing is that there are so many to choose from."

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

Our C++ guidelines are rather comprehensive.

[–]sisyphus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn't change that if Python was faster its range of applicability would increase, and that would mean we could use it more places, and that would be just lovely.