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Khan Academy Rewrote their Back end
- alex_lav 3y agoWhy have there been so many posts about this lately? I feel like there have been 3-5 posts from different sources about Khan academy moving from a Python 2 monolith to go micro services. It seems like an inordinate amount of coverage for something like this. What am I missing?
- re-thc 3y agoThe decision process is confusing. Python 2 -> Python 3 would have been an easier win but ok, not good enough. Python 2 -> Kotlin would be logical choice since Kotlin is already in use? Why introduce another language just to save some memory? Feels like a Resume++ by someone that just wanted to use Go.
- mcdonje 3y ago>[go is] often described as C for the 21rst [sic] century I've never heard that and it's a silly thing to say. There's overlap of use cases, but it's a proper venn diagram and not a circle. It's not a drop in replacement for C.
- 31337Logic 3y agoI lost all respect for Khan when they started ramming AI down students' throats. Let the downvotes begin.