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Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by edwinnathaniel »

drglitch wrote: post #2

To this day it doesn't seize to amaze me how many companies run on python - JPMorgan, Bank of America, LinkedIn, Dropbox, etc etc etc - that's probably at least 15K devs right there. And so many more ... Makes me proud to be a python dev :)

LinkedIN is a Java/Scala shop.

Other than Dropbox (well, technically they seem to move toward Go/Rust? for core critical infrastructure), I rarely see medium to big scal projects using largely Python. Instagram, while uses Python, is relatively small size shop/group of people. I don't know well how big pinterest/eventbrite.

Some BigCos are using Python for less important projects (scratching their itch maybe?)

I don't mean to disrespect the language or the community, I prefer it over other languages but after reading all Python success story, I concluded that more of them are just for morale booster for the community. 10 years large scale Python project is probably very rare...(maybe YouTube but the again the major use of Youtube is their video/streaming, non-Python)

Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by blahi »

drglitch wrote: post #2

To this day it doesn't seize to amaze me how many companies run on python - JPMorgan, Bank of America, LinkedIn, Dropbox, etc etc etc - that's probably at least 15K devs right there. And so many more ... Makes me proud to be a python dev :)

What do you mean by "run on python"? Those companies use pretty much every language in existence (not quite, but you get the point, I hope).

Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by sanxiyn »

edwinnathaniel wrote: post #3
drglitch wrote: post #2

To this day it doesn't seize to amaze me how many companies run on python - JPMorgan, Bank of America, LinkedIn, Dropbox, etc etc etc - that's probably at least 15K devs right there. And so many more ... Makes me proud to be a python dev :)

LinkedIN is a Java/Scala shop. Other than Dropbox (well, technically they seem to move toward Go/Rust? for core critical infrastructure), I rarely see medium to big scal projects using largely Python. Instagram, while uses Python, is relatively small size shop/group of people. I don't know well how big pinterest/eventbrite. Some BigCos are using Python for less important projects (scratching their itch maybe?) I don'…

To me, saying YouTube is non-Python is like saying Facebook is non-PHP.

Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by pjmlp »

sanxiyn wrote: post #7
edwinnathaniel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIN is a Java/Scala shop. Other than Dropbox (well, technically they seem to move toward Go/Rust? for core critical infrastructure), I rarely see medium to big scal projects using largely Python. Instagram, while uses Python, is relatively small size shop/group of people. I don't know well how big pinterest/eventbrite. Some BigCos are using Python for less important projects (scratching their itch maybe?) I don'…

To me, saying YouTube is non-Python is like saying Facebook is non-PHP.

Facebook has long stop using PHP in its pure form and also adopted many other languages.

They are now using HHVM, Hack, Reason, Erlang, C++, JavaScript, OCaml, Haskell.

YouTube has moved some of their core components to Go.

Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by jivid »

drglitch wrote: post #2

To this day it doesn't seize to amaze me how many companies run on python - JPMorgan, Bank of America, LinkedIn, Dropbox, etc etc etc - that's probably at least 15K devs right there. And so many more ... Makes me proud to be a python dev :)

Facebook has a very extensive Python codebase as well. 21% of all backend code is Python:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1040181199381023/python-in-p...

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