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Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?
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this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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No, it's not. It was rewritten in Facebook's version of PHP when they bought them.
Here's a blog post from meta, they introduced immortal objects to python to help with their Instagram scaling.
https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/15/developer-tools/immortal-objects-for-python-instagram-meta/
Huh, TIL, I didn't realize they kept the gateway servers in Python.