bitly is overwhelmingly C and Python
Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
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Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#12Orvant has lots of Python under the hood. It allows us to move quickly. There are very few things we actually need to use C or C++ for. The main reason we'd use C is to write Python bindings for a C library. :)
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#13I know that Google is using C and Python. The first version of Google was written in Python. Today the webserver and the web page are written in C, for performance reasons. But internally they still use a lot of Python.
Google is too large for me .. at least for now. :) I'm looking for a place where I can work on an entire (or at least a large portion) product.
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#14Orvant has lots of Python under the hood. It allows us to move quickly. There are very few things we actually need to use C or C++ for. The main reason we'd use C is to write Python bindings for a C library. :) https://www.orvant.com/
Orvant looks really cool! Are you hiring, by chance?
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#15bitly is overwhelmingly C and Python
Bitly has always interested me because it looks like it would be such a simple project, but there are obviously interesting scaling problems to be solved at Bitly.
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#16Orvant has lots of Python under the hood. It allows us to move quickly. There are very few things we actually need to use C or C++ for. The main reason we'd use C is to write Python bindings for a C library. :) https://www.orvant.com/
Orvant looks really cool! Are you hiring, by chance?
We are not actively hiring right now. Though if you think what we do is interesting I encourage you to send your contact info and resume to support@orvant.com
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#17Check out www.omnicloudapp.com - they're hiring devs in Stockholm / the US for disrupting the hosting world.
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#18The company I work for uses C and PHP mainly , but as our platform is Gentoo that also makes us users of python. I also write most of the utility scripts I use in python. http://sevone.com
SevOne's careers page says that a Bachelor's degree is a requirement. How strict is SevOne (or any other company, for that matter) on this requirement? Do you know of any software engineers that don't have a degree?
Loads of software engineers don't have a degree.
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#19The server side code of http://www.cyclinganalytics.com/ is almost entirely Python with a small amount of C.
There's one particular bit of data processing that gets a couple of orders of magnitude speedup by writing the code in C rather than Python. It involves lots of loops and indexes, and it's possible there's a faster way to do it in Python, but I couldn't think of one.
Re: Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
#20I know that Google is using C and Python. The first version of Google was written in Python. Today the webserver and the web page are written in C, for performance reasons. But internally they still use a lot of Python.
So far I have only seen C++ from Google, never C. Are you referring to anything specific from them?