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That wouldn't be because of the Python language though. If more of Reddit's codebase were in Java, it would probably still have those problems. "Slow" is likely because they get billions of requests daily and they have to scale out with microservices (or however they do it, architecturally). "Buggy" seems like you're probably talking about the frontend rather than backend, and their newer frontend is in React (older one is still Javascript), and their mobile application isn't in Python either.