Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google

marcell wrote: post #3

As far as I can tell, the author does not work for Google, and moreover the article makes no mention of Google aside from the headline.

Here's a good conversation on it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-py...

Re: Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google

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Post by mikeyanderson » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:15 AM UTC

porter wrote: post #4

What does google actually use python for? Certainly not everything...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2560310/heavy-usage-of-py...

Re: Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google

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Post by outside1234 » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:18 AM UTC

porter wrote: post #4

What does google actually use python for? Certainly not everything...

Google uses python for non production facing scripts. Everything production facing is C++ or Java.

Re: Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google

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Post by aioprisan » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:18 AM UTC

Google uses dozens of different languages in the services they offer. Heck, they even built a few languages themselves, like Go and Dart. Go is definitely used in production as well http://golang.org/doc/faq#Is_Google_using_go_internally. Is there any data to suggest that Google writes a non-negligible number of apps in Python vs the dozens or so of other languages? I'm curious.

Re: Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google

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Post by pydanny » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:19 AM UTC

I like this article because some notes I took at Walt Disney Animation Studios is referenced.

Yes, today it's all about me :-)

Re: Why Python is Powerful Enough for Google

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Post by vezzy-fnord » Tue, Jan 28, 2014, 1:21 AM UTC

I'm not against Python by any means. I like it and I use it fairly often.

However this article is very unconvincing.

The arguments summed up in order are basically:

* Python has generators.

* Python interpreters are getting faster.

* Argument from popularity.

* Holy shit, guys! Did you know that CPython isn't the only Python implementation, and that there's a difference between language specification and implementation? Mind = blown, amirite?

* It's so easy... scientists and mathematicians can use it? (Not to say that Python isn't easy, but to make it out like it'd be so impressive for a hard scientist to pick up programming is silly.)