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Google / YouTube no longer use Python “for product”, at least, not in the serving path. Dropbox has also been moving away and towards Golang. Instagram (Cinder
by rrdharan 4y ago
Google / YouTube no longer use Python “for product”, at least, not in the serving path. Dropbox has also been moving away and towards Golang.
Instagram (Cinder), Google (Unladen Swallow) and Dropbox (Pyston) have also all experimented with heavy engineering investment trying to improve Python performance and only one of them (Cinder) has outcompeted the “just rewrite it in a faster language” strategy.
- shanebellone 4y agoAlso... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-311-faster-cpython-team/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-311-faster-cpyt...
- solarkraft 4y agoI think it's a great pattern to start with Python and do something once performance becomes a problem. You can afford it when you're successful thanks to the code you wrote in Python, or it won't be a problem anyway.
- reducesuffering 4y agoReddit is also transitioning away to Go, and Netflix is not a Python shop, they're far more Java with some Node.
- shanebellone 4y agoNetflix uses Python for their recommendation engine, correct?
- reducesuffering 4y ago> How popular would Python be without the scientific users and the machine learning ecosystem?