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Now that Golang is making headways at Dropbox, I guess Python codebase will diminish in its importance... I wonder how Guido Van Rossum feels about it. First he

Now that Golang is making headways at Dropbox, I guess Python codebase will diminish in its importance... I wonder how Guido Van Rossum feels about it. First he was at Google but they created Go and he left to Dropbox which was a large Python shop, now they are moving to Go too.

james_cowling 11y ago
I probably wasn't sufficiently clear in my other message re Golang: - Python is our primary development language for most stuff at Dropbox. - Mobile development and UI code use whatever is appropriate for each platform. - Go is the primary language for Infrastructure, meaning fairly deep-backend stuff: databases, storage systems, message pipelines, search indices etc. - Rust is used on Magic Pocket (which is within Infrastructure). - We still have a bit of C++ code floating around but there's not much new development in C++ within Infrastructure. C/C++ are still used for common libraries for mobile development however.