>>they could have rewritten the site from the ground up
They did. They even tossed out Common Lisp and bought in Python because they thought it would fix their problems. It didn't.
They did. They even tossed out Common Lisp and bought in Python because they thought it would fix their problems. It didn't.
The problems they're dealing with 14 years later as one of the top sites on the internet aren't even slightly comparable.
Python is a good scripting language, But if you are developing backend applications for this scale you probably need some serious JVM language. Or even Golang works fine.