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		DeathArrow on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Python keeps growing, explained I remember when Twitter rewrote the code in Java because Ruby wasn't suited for the task. Probably this will happen to many large Python code bases in the future.

moffkalast on March 3, 2023 | [–]

Every codebase will eventually be rewritten in Rust sometime before the heat death of the universe.

DeathArrow on March 3, 2023 | | [–]

As a divine punishment?

HarHarVeryFunny on March 3, 2023 | [–]

Perhaps, but it seems the shelf-life of anything AI/ML related (huge part of Python usage) is so short that it'll become obsolete before it ever becomes worth rewriting.

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