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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by kamaal on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:37AM (#21013338)
>>they could have rewritten the site from the ground up

They did. They even tossed out Common Lisp and bought in Python because they thought it would fix their problems. It didn't.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by Deimorz on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:16AM (#21013491)
That was in December 2005, less than 6 months after the site launched. Reddit was tiny and didn't even have subreddits or comments yet. This is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20051205025706/http://reddit.com...

The problems they're dealing with 14 years later as one of the top sites on the internet aren't even slightly comparable.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by kamaal on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:54AM (#21013936)
Sure, may be its time to move to something like Clojure or Golang now?

Python is a good scripting language, But if you are developing backend applications for this scale you probably need some serious JVM language. Or even Golang works fine.

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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by Stevvo on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:34AM (#21014417)
Instagram's backend is written in python. Python is very slow, but still fast enough.
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Re:Reddit was down for over two hours by juststeve on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:40AM (#21014690)
they could still backend to C or rust, no?
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