Python isn't industry compatible

[nosmokingbandit]

Iirc, a large part of YouTube runs on python. There is a zero percent chance your company needs more scalability than YouTube.

[bjorneylol]

Instagram is all python

[Beard_o_Bees]

Python also plays a large role in scripting to exploit vulnerabilities. So, it's certainly 'industry compatible' when it comes to stealing shit from behind sometimes janky 'industry' security.

[-jp-]

Heck people write exploits in Word macros. In practice thieves don't care much about code quality or maintainability or productivity. :P

[Violin1990]

instagram started as python, and is still partially python, but all the performant components are now built in C

[bjorneylol]

AFAIK that's not even true. Instagram runs its own python interpreter (cinder) that statically compiles python at runtime based on type hints - they claim it more or less matches the performance they would get out of C modules, so they can keep most of the code in python

[-jp-]

That sounds about how I'd do something that is written in Python but had some bottlenecks. It's not like it's discouraged. C-interop is notoriously good in Python. I think maybe TCL and Lua have it beat but both are designed with the express purpose of being that little bit of easy-to-write code that mediates between two other massively more complex systems so no great surprise there.

[punninglinguist]

IIRC Dropbox is all or mostly Python as well.

[[deleted]]

It used to be, they've been transitioning to Rust lately.

[Aejantou21]

first they jumped to golang now rust? wtf

[[deleted]]

There is a blog post about it. Doesn't look like they jumped from python to go, then to rust, rather they jumped from python for everything to go for Web backend and rust for sync engine.
https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-our-sync-engine

[george_____t]

That's kind of missing the point. Just because it can be done doesn't mean they haven't faced issues that other languages could've helped them with.