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You can pry pattern matching from my cold dead hands (europe.pub)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I seem to remember hearing this story: Back in the 2000s, Google did all their back-end stuff in C++ to make sure it was performant, and when they acquired Youtube they found it was made in Python, slow to run, fast to develop.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Did they change it after the acquisition? Or is python why it's still so freaking slow?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Lol @ YouTube being slow

    Look at the amount of data that goes through their servers every millisecond. It's ridiculous. All things considered, YouTube is lightning fast.

    Maybe the UI isn't as snappy as it could be, but the blame there lies solely on throwing more and more javascript at it to add "features" that end users don't really want.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Things is you don't crunch numbers in Python code, you do that in libraries called from Python.

    It's a few statements of orchestration and any heavy lifting is encapsulated compiled code.

    You don't do tight loops on Python, or if you do you're using it wrong.

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