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		collyw on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do I escape webdev? Depends who's code you have inherited. Agreed Python is a lot more pleasant than Javascript, but people still write some horrible stuff.

FreekNortier on March 3, 2020 | [–]

But does Python back-end code scale like Javascript?

collyw on March 3, 2020 | | [–]

Are you saying that you can't scale code because it's in Python? And JavaScript would solve the problem?

You can scale Python apps just fine (though obviously it depends a lot on the problem as how you go about that)

staticautomatic on March 3, 2020 | [–]

Sure, I meant for greenfield projects.

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