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Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by edwinnathaniel » Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 1:48 PM UTC

knabacks wrote: post #13

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'…

Maybe you look at the false examples :) http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office... = Cisco Web & Email Security The Source for the Server is now open source: https://github.com/ironport/shrapnel (python / cython /Pyrex) And disqus had run mainly on Python before they moved some parts to Go-Lang https://github.com/disqus Many Gov's / Edu's run on Plone

Plone, while written in Python, should be considered as a packaged app. These small units of govt and edu mostly just install it with a few modifications/installed plugins.

No offense to disqus but they are relatively small.

So I believe my statement still holds true.

Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by edwinnathaniel » Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 1:49 PM UTC

raverbashing wrote: post #15

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'…

> Some BigCos are using Python for less important projects (scratching their itch maybe?) You are very very wrong, but I'm not violating any NDAs here

Very wrong sounds absolutes while my statement clearly generalizing the situation, which means there will be rare exceptions. But those are just rare exceptions.

Re: Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)

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Post by edwinnathaniel » Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 1:58 PM UTC

jivid wrote: post #9

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...

I would like to know how much out of 21% are for scripting/shell/utility, how much for services, how much are truly part of the real products.

Calling scripting/shell/utility for "backend" might give wrong ideas to certain crowds who might have thought that backend is more important than front end product sensitive code that 1Billion users interact with everyday.