[waprin]

Yet YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Robinhood, DoorDash, and Lyft backend were originally primarily written in Python. What’s funny is that nobody can really deny Python is slow yet somehow the biggest websites in the world were written in it. More proof that Worse Is Better?

[huffmsa]

In the early stages:

Speed of development is far more important than optimizing CPU usage.

You can fake your way to fast responses with good caching, but there's not really many ways to fake having the best features.