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Maybe this is apocryphal, but I think I remember hearing that Reddit was originally written in some kind of lisp. Not to say it doesn't owe its success to pytho

Maybe this is apocryphal, but I think I remember hearing that Reddit was originally written in some kind of lisp. Not to say it doesn't owe its success to python.

Phrodo_00 4y ago
Very early versions, but they were already using python before you could create your own subreddits, for example (which is around the time when it started becoming more mainstream)
- KMnO4 4y ago
  IIRC, they were able to fully rewrite it in Python in a weekend. I guess that shows the (small) scale of what it was at that point.
  - foobarian 4y ago
    Why did they need to rewrite it in Python? Isn't lisp more powerful, meaning it would have been easier to create and experiment with more features?
    - seba_dos1 4y ago
      I guess they realized that they would like to start hiring.