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>>they could have rewritten the site from the ground up They did. They even tossed out Common Lisp and bought in Python because they thought it would fix their

• Deimorz 7y ago
  That was in December 2005, less than 6 months after the site launched. Reddit was tiny and didn't even have subreddits or comments yet. This is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20051205025706/http://reddit.com:80/ https://web.archive.org/web/20051205025706/http://reddit.com... The problems they're dealing with 14 years later as one of the top sites on the internet aren't even slightly comparable.
  • kamaal 7y ago
    Sure, may be its time to move to something like Clojure or Golang now? Python is a good scripting language, But if you are developing backend applications for this scale you probably need some serious JVM language. Or even Golang works fine.
    • Stevvo 7y ago
      Instagram's backend is written in python. Python is very slow, but still fast enough.
• juststeve 7y ago
  they could still backend to C or rust, no?