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Instagram has used python and django at scale. They have written about it in their engineering blog[0]. Not sure what their current stack is.

They did resort to all kinds of tricks. But your overal point still stands. The performance of python is lacking memory and it's embarrassingly slow. I hope python4 will have scripted for developing and compiled for production, like Dart. And a great compiler like Rust.

[0]https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...

>>Attumm+(OP)
My question isn't about Python. It's about Reddit being trivial to recreate. I work on an API team at a Big Tech company and, funny enough, a lot of our legacy is in Python and we've scaled it using lots of pretty gross tricks. We may or may not be Instagram (:

The keyword here of course is "at scale". At what scale? Any commenter that believes what was written upthread should create a system and demonstrate that it can scale to Reddit levels.

>>Karrot+k1
They also think what Reddit does is "only serve large amounts of text" oh where should I start with how wrong this is

I'm sure not even HN "does only that" and even that it does with a lot of help from caching, etc

>>Attumm+(OP)
python4? Is that coming?

No... not again... I can't.