Fairest damsel in the leper colony.

Thanks, admins, your efforts and patience have been greatly appreciated.

We use Python on the back end of a public-facing website with massive levels of traffic. There are some maintainability issues due to the dynamic nature of the language, duck typing can be tricky for similar reasons, but as long as devs are sensible and test things rigorously, performance is fine, and I’m reasonably sure we’re operating at a scale at least a couple orders of magnitude larger than all Lemmy instances combined. Also, it’s a mature, concise language with excellent libraries, so most non-exotic requirements can be met without too much difficulty.

People mention how its bad but they just assume people know why.

They don’t know why. I supect it’s because nothing works right if you do it wrong.