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LinkedIN is a Java/Scala shop.

Other than Dropbox (well, technically they seem to move toward Go/Rust? for core critical infrastructure), I rarely see medium to big scal projects using largely Python. Instagram, while uses Python, is relatively small size shop/group of people. I don't know well how big pinterest/eventbrite.

Some BigCos are using Python for less important projects (scratching their itch maybe?)

I don't mean to disrespect the language or the community, I prefer it over other languages but after reading all Python success story, I concluded that more of them are just for morale booster for the community. 10 years large scale Python project is probably very rare...(maybe YouTube but the again the major use of Youtube is their video/streaming, non-Python)

Maybe you look at the false examples :)

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/corporate-strategy-office... = Cisco Web & Email Security

The Source for the Server is now open source: https://github.com/ironport/shrapnel (python / cython /Pyrex)

And disqus had run mainly on Python before they moved some parts to Go-Lang

https://github.com/disqus

Many Gov's / Edu's run on Plone

Plone, while written in Python, should be considered as a packaged app. These small units of govt and edu mostly just install it with a few modifications/installed plugins.

No offense to disqus but they are relatively small.

So I believe my statement still holds true.

To me, saying YouTube is non-Python is like saying Facebook is non-PHP.

Facebook has long stop using PHP in its pure form and also adopted many other languages.

They are now using HHVM, Hack, Reason, Erlang, C++, JavaScript, OCaml, Haskell.

YouTube has moved some of their core components to Go.

> Some BigCos are using Python for less important projects (scratching their itch maybe?)

You are very very wrong, but I'm not violating any NDAs here

Very wrong sounds absolutes while my statement clearly generalizing the situation, which means there will be rare exceptions. But those are just rare exceptions.

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