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arctangent on April 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What was the code quality of the initial version o...

I don't think the problem was with Python. It seems that the problem was that their code wasn't very good.

It's worth pointing out that there are lots of good tools available now (which were not available then) which make Python an excellent choice for high performance systems.

I will take my Python zealot hat off now. You just raised my hackles slightly, is all :-)

ntoshev on April 16, 2011 [–]

Scaling a website and scaling a search engine are two very different things. Python websites are OK, Python search engines... well: http://whoosh.ca/blog/fools_errand

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