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by newhouseb 2734 days ago
> Last I heard, Dropbox has moved towards using Python for everything, which gives them kinda horrible performance IMO.

The opposite is the case. New components are typically written in Go on the backend, Rust in the sync engine and the respective native toolchains on mobile platforms.

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I haven’t used Dropbox in a while, so I’ll have to take a look at it sometime. Is Dropbox back to using Cocoa again?