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sojmq on Dec 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Django 3

Yes. If you can afford the CPU power, by all means go with Python. Otherwise just don't.

Instagram can afford it so it works fine for them. Reddit can't, so their site is always slow or down.

traverseda on Dec 2, 2019 | [–]

I think reddits issues are more related to database IO than cpu time.

mattbillenstein on Dec 2, 2019 | | [–]

You don't know what you're talking about.

kashug on Dec 2, 2019 | [–]

And you know it is becouse of python reddit is often slow or down? Or are you just blaming pythin without any actual data on the underlying reasons?

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