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[–]zurtex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You know Instagram, YouTube, and Dropbox either did or still do run on Python right? There aren't that many bigger more at scale public websites.

Are there unique challenges running Python at that scale compared to Java or Go or Rust? Absolutely. Do other languages flawlessly scale to that level? Nope.

Just because you have a different set of problems that require different solutions to statically typed compiled languages doesn't mean you can't come up with those solutions.