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This poll is very interesting to me for one reason - Python is winning the poll, yet I very rarely see/use any large web applications that are actually written
by RyanZAG 13y ago
This poll is very interesting to me for one reason - Python is winning the poll, yet I very rarely see/use any large web applications that are actually written in Python. I'm guessing this is partly because Python is increasing in popularity now, and the web applications being written in it haven't yet reached the wider public? Also, perhaps, a lot of small personal projects are done in Python yet don't scale out into the Gmail/Gdocs/Github style ubiquitous services?
The poll is also missing Javascript which is very strange, as it's probably still the most used language for the front end of web apps, and with Node it's probably used more regularly for the full stack, too. EDIT: Looks like Javascript was just edited into the poll now.
- bobbyi_settv 13y agoYouTube handles more traffic than all the sites you named combined.
- shinkage 13y agoThat might be true, but do not forget it is a hybrid between Python and the C Family (C++?).
- Morphling 13y agoDon't quote me on this, but I think Python is more wildly used than Ruby as a language, but not on the web and it's popularity on the poll might have to do with Rails now falling off little since it's not the shiny new toy anymore. Everyone seems to be all up in Python right now and I don't know why.
- shuzchen 13y agoThere are a ton of large web apps done in python. Youtube, disqus, bitbucket, The Onion, some mozilla properties, instagram are the examples that come to my mind. A simple google search would probably result in surfacing many more - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale
- morganwilde 13y agoLet's not forget Dropbox
- MetaCosm 13y ago... how do you know what major web applications are written in? A lot of companies go to some length to obscure this. Also, aren't a lot of rather big names into Python publicly? Disqus, Pinterest, Dropbox, Everbrite, SurveyMonkey.. There are just the ones I can remember talking about using Python.
- bobbyi_settv 13y agoInstagram as well: http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/what-powers-instagram-hundreds-of-instances-dozens-of http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/13649370142/wha...
- darkf 13y agoReddit uses Python as well
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- randomguy7788 13y agoat the top of my head reddit and youtube are written in python...
- odayfans 13y agoIs youtube large enough? There's a lecture[1] on slideshare that introduces Python in Youtube. Another example is a Chinese SNS website Douban[2], which serves over 100 million users, and it's very active. [1] http://www.slideshare.net/didip/super-sizing-youtube-with-python http://www.slideshare.net/didip/super-sizing-youtube-with-py... [2] http://douban.com http://douban.com
- louyang 13y agoLet's not forget reddit :]