"good software" is not a goal. My goal, especially if I'm a solo dev, is to make something cool, efficiently. Instagram is built on Django and probably lots of

"good software" is not a goal. My goal, especially if I'm a solo dev, is to make something cool, efficiently. Instagram is built on Django and probably lots of JavaScript too. Maybe their software is a slow, ponderous stack of crappy libraries, but if those languages can function at that scale they're probably good enough for 99% of people. Besides, code at a large scale in any language is always messy. There are many ways to manage a growing codebase but if your only approach is relying a "good" language with static typing, verbose/explicit syntax, and a better built-in package manager, you are doomed to fail anyways. Perhaps this is a case of correlation=/=causation? Python is more accessible so less adept programmers are more likely to use it.