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Re:Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta by rich_sasha on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:57PM (#32254998)
The time to start up a Python interpreter and do meaningful imports is quite painful for a CLI app. If you have Python code and want add a CLI you can live with it, but you wouldn't pick it ahead of time .
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Re:Programming languages endorsed for server-side use at Meta by adamsb6 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @03:15PM (#32255319)
This is exactly why. It's also not just the interpreter, it's also one-time costs involved in unpacking PAR files, but deploys are frequent enough that you might hit those delays many times per day.
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