Re:Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)
by knabacks on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:35AM
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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
Many Gov's / Edu's run on Plone
Re:Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)
by edwinnathaniel on Saturday July 23, 2016 @09:48AM
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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)
by sanxiyn on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:32AM
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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)
by raverbashing on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:51AM
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> 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
Re:Microsoft Ships Python Code in 1996 (2009)
by edwinnathaniel on Saturday July 23, 2016 @09:49AM
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Very wrong sounds absolutes while my statement clearly generalizing the situation, which means there will be rare exceptions. But those are just rare exceptions.
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)