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For me, it does seem really strange since PHP (currently) is faster than Python and PHP wasn't fast enough for Facebook. But it's interesting to see how it'll play out.


It’s obvious why they went with python. Since Instagram was written in python and Threads is based on instagram, they’re probably using a lot of the libraries they already have for Instagram.


That makes some sense.


Probably Python is deemed as more appealing to hipsters than good old PHP.


Nothing good about old php. Been doing php in 2004 and Django in 2009. Both were shit by todays standards but php was exceptionally so.


Python is older than PHP.




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