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Re:Why I Left Google by tensafefrogs on Thursday May 31, 2012 @10:10PM (#4051552)
YouTube's codebase is largely python, but it was sort of grandfathered in. I'm unsure if it would be used if they were to rewrite it today.
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Re:Why I Left Google by philsnow on Friday June 01, 2012 @12:41AM (#4052004)
Some parts of it are being rewritten from the ground up, and I know of at least one sizeable portion that's being rewritten in python.

edit: depending on who you meant by 'they', I bet go would be a contender for (parts of) a total rewrite

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Re:Why I Left Google by luriel on Friday June 01, 2012 @02:20AM (#4052217)
YouTube is starting to use Go quite a lot. They even released this: http://code.google.com/p/vitess/
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Re:Why I Left Google by tempacct4321 on Friday June 01, 2012 @05:14PM (#4055823)
What does "grandfathered" mean? Seen the term in a few recent HN posts as well, dealing with accounts at web sites where they change plans, etc. TIA.
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