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Neat, looks like a custom Python framework... was expecting Django.

• Lammy 3y ago
  RIP aaronsw https://webpy.org/ https://webpy.org/ “(The site was rewritten using other tools after being acquired by Condé Nast.)”
  • notatoad 3y ago
    was reddit ever on webpy? i thought it was lisp back in the day before conde nast
    • Lammy 3y ago
      http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit “Over at reddit.com, we rewrote the site from Lisp to Python in the past week. It was pretty much done in one weekend. (Disclosure: We used my web.py library.) The others knew Lisp (they wrote their whole site in it) and they knew Python (they rewrote their whole site in it) and yet they decided liked Python better for this project. The Python version had less code that ran faster and was far easier to read and maintain.”
• Klonoar 3y ago
  Someone would have to correct me if I'm wrong here as my history is hazy, but wasn't Reddit originally built in Lisp and then ported to Python due to other factors (i.e hard to find talent/hard to maintain/speed of iteration/etc)? Django back then had notable nuances at scale and if you were migrating over a codebase in another language I'm not sure it would've been a viable thing to entertain.