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Let's make this thread useful instead: Please enlighten the HN community at large: Tell us how you'd build instagram, what your tech choices would be and why Python is the "worst technology choice".

(If this goes well maybe you'll get an email from Mike Krieger with the subject line "Here, you do this".)



Do you really think Instagram is a great work of art, that the Instagram codebase is exemplary?

I think it could be pure shit -- and indeed a very simple idea. They got big and famous, but it wasn't for dexterity in language choice or coding.


If you believe it to be that simple and low quality a codebase, why does it matter which language they pick?




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