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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by troupo on Thursday July 06, 2023 @03:42PM (#36621691)
> but do you think PHP was a good option, or was it a "fitting a square peg into a round hole" situation?

Facebook was founded in 2004. Whatever fancy tech you're thinking that would fit the round hole, it didn't exist then. They also never thought it would serve a couple billion of users one day, so they built it in whatever they had and knew at the time.

Same for Instagram and Python (they started with Django).

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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by zitterbewegung on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:56PM (#36622890)
How they have used Instagram with Django is that they have replaced pieces of Django over time with custom parts which is a benefit of the design of Django.
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