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Python at Google: A discussion from 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493 2011: "Languages like Python a
by CCs 14y ago
Python at Google:
A discussion from 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493
2011: "Languages like Python are shunned upon because they're too slow for web frontends" http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-to-do-to-return-google-to-its-startup-roots/ http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-t...
It is used for internal tool scripting like build, testing:
http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome-for-iOS/Is-Chrome-for-iOS-using-Python http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome-for-iOS/Is-Chrome-for-iOS...
http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-projects-at-Google-use-Python http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-projects-at-Google-use-Pyt...
- raverbashing 14y agoInteresting. Python being 'too slow' makes sense, but at the same time it doesn't. For example, it has much more behaved GC (and reference counters) I guess if Google wanted to make it 'super fast' it could. Or use PyPy. Or Jython