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0 pointslhorie7y ago0 comments

The decision was from before my time, so I'm not sure what the specifics are. As I understand, the main motivations to move away from Python were that Java/Go provided better performance (e.g. memory usage) and reliability (read: static typing)

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drugme7y ago· 1 in thread

Fair enough - I just like to understand where people are coming from on this issue.

lhorieOP7y ago

On a side note, my brother works at Duolingo and wrote an article detailing a very similar migration (from Python to Scala) here: http://making.duolingo.com/rewriting-duolingos-engine-in-sca... and lists very similar reasons for the switch.

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