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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by jajajajajajajaj on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:29PM (#36623351)
If you want the real answer, it’s because Instagram was acquired and the startup used Django. That’s it.
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Re:Back end of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10 with s... by oaiey on Thursday July 06, 2023 @06:07PM (#36623825)
Exactly. This is all over engineered thinking. They probably pulled the core Instagram engineering team and gave them a new task. They used what they had.
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