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Dropbox is not dropping Python: "Dropbox will continue to develop majority of its features in Python. We have only migrated performance critical components to G

• sigzero 12y ago
  Hey now! No actual reading of the source material please. /s
• alexbardas 12y ago
  It's more or less a matter of time until everything will be migrated to go. Since it has better performance and works good for them, there's no point not to do it.
  • mitchty 12y ago
    Not necessarily. First easy reason for not migrating: the cost to do so outweighs the benefits. Why port working code to a new language when all you're doing is maintenance? I don't know about you but its hard to sell upper managers on complete rewrites of things when the end result is: no real change but it might/should/could run faster. Unless performance is a concern to be addressed the risk of changing technology stacks doesn't seem a great idea.
    • thrownaway2424 12y ago
      You don't have to rewrite anything, the old language can still die. If you're writing all your new code in X and your codebase growth is accelerating, the existing code in Y will look less and less relevant over time.
      • mitchty 12y ago
        Perhaps, but it doesn't sound at all that the case is all new stuff is go for them.