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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by that_guy_iain on Thursday July 06, 2023 @01:39PM (#36619790)
For me, it does seem really strange since PHP (currently) is faster than Python and PHP wasn't fast enough for Facebook. But it's interesting to see how it'll play out.
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by rafark on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:08PM (#36620297)
It’s obvious why they went with python. Since Instagram was written in python and Threads is based on instagram, they’re probably using a lot of the libraries they already have for Instagram.
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by that_guy_iain on Thursday July 06, 2023 @02:22PM (#36620502)
That makes some sense.
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by DeathArrow on Thursday July 06, 2023 @03:07PM (#36621184)
Probably Python is deemed as more appealing to hipsters than good old PHP.
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by wiseowise on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:48PM (#36622759)
Python is older than PHP.
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by baq on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:01PM (#36624485)
Nothing good about old php. Been doing php in 2004 and Django in 2009. Both were shit by todays standards but php was exceptionally so.
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