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Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

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Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#11
post #5

Always the same people that get their names in the news. I would say that the amount of tweaks that prop up Python is no cause for celebration.

Yet here it is ... powering a global scale app.

Too weak for someones hobby project, strong enough for global scale.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#12
post #11
post #5

Always the same people that get their names in the news. I would say that the amount of tweaks that prop up Python is no cause for celebration.

Yet here it is ... powering a global scale app. Too weak for someones hobby project, strong enough for global scale.

So Google and Dropbox, who switched to Golang, are hobby projects.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"JIT, lazy-loaded modules, pre-compiled static modules, and a bunch of other interesting tweaks against vanilla Python 3.10"

That is just CPython fork from instagram https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder/

The fork is where the tweaks live.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#15
post #13

Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.

Why downvote this? It's a fair point.

Because it's not ironic. It's obvious. Twitter is just a medium to post stuff. Threads is as well. I can post this on mastodon even. Also: Europe still can't join in on the fun.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#16

Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.

Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

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post #11
post #5

Always the same people that get their names in the news. I would say that the amount of tweaks that prop up Python is no cause for celebration.

Yet here it is ... powering a global scale app. Too weak for someones hobby project, strong enough for global scale.

My few years of personal experience of using Python with even small-ish scale professional projects have been... underwhelming so far. I wonder how Meta (and Google, and all the others who write serious Python code) manage to keep things running – and I'm not talking (only) of performance, but largely of bugs.

My personal suspicion is that the secret sauce is simply to have a sufficient budget to hire an army of code quality engineers. I could be wrong, though.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#19
post #13

Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.

Why downvote this? It's a fair point.

A fair point about what? Threads is out for less than a day, I have 8 followers there so far. I originally posted this information on Mastodon, actually: https://mastodon.social/@ambv/110665808046065754

However, I have a much larger following on Twitter, so it was the tweet that got picked up by someone here on HN.

We'll see how this looks like in twelve months.

Re: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

#20
post #16

Ironic that a post about Threads backend is hosted on twitter.

Threads is a mobile-only app, like Instagram. You can't actually use Threads on a desktop browser, so that's probably why this is shared as a Twitter post. Even if it were a Threads post, it would not be submittable to HN.

It also launched "in more than 100 countries" but none of the the E.U. ones.

So until it either solves its privacy issues of becomes part of the fediverse, audience is crippled.

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