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YouTube alone is millions of lines of Python, "not much" on Google's scale is probably 100+ million LoC
by dilyevsky 2y ago
YouTube alone is millions of lines of Python, "not much" on Google's scale is probably 100+ million LoC
- pjmlp 2y agoOriginally yes, nowadays probably not as much.
- cbhl 2y agoThat hasn't been true for some years; instead of migrating Python 2->3 most of that code got rewritten as a collection of C++ microservices (admittedly with some performance wins but a lot of newly added complexity).
- rixed 2y agoYoutube has been rewritten in c++/java eons ago. I have been told by an old timer that YT is indeed the reason why there is Python at Google, and the time required for the rewrite is indeed the reason why internal devtools had to support Python.