My question isn't about Python. It's about Reddit being trivial to recreate. I work on an API team at a Big Tech company and, funny enough, a lot of our legacy is in Python and we've scaled it using lots of pretty gross tricks. We may or may not be Instagram (:

The keyword here of course is "at scale". At what scale? Any commenter that believes what was written upthread should create a system and demonstrate that it can scale to Reddit levels.

They also think what Reddit does is "only serve large amounts of text" oh where should I start with how wrong this is

I'm sure not even HN "does only that" and even that it does with a lot of help from caching, etc

python4? Is that coming?

No... not again... I can't.