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		Schweigi on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter jobs to cu... They obviously rewrite Twitter back to Python! Afterall, this shouldn’t take them more than a Sunday afternoon - or at least that’s what Elon gave them as the deadline.

threeseed on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

Python is significantly slower than Scala.

But I guess with all of the users leaving it should balance out.

shaburn on Nov 3, 2022 | [–]

3.11 is pretty fast. Probably roll with rust over scala.

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