Sure, may be its time to move to something like Clojure or Golang now? Python is...

kamaal on Sept 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit was down for over two hours

Sure, may be its time to move to something like Clojure or Golang now?

Python is a good scripting language, But if you are developing backend applications for this scale you probably need some serious JVM language. Or even Golang works fine.

Stevvo on Sept 19, 2019 [–]

Instagram's backend is written in python. Python is very slow, but still fast enough.