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wing-_-nuts on July 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

What are the benefits of python with types vs a statically typed language like java, golang, etc?

jajajajajajajaj on July 6, 2023 [–]

The main “benefit” is that Instagram is written in Python and always has been.

It’s millions of lines of code, you can’t just change it to be Java one day.

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