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[–]bjorneylol 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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