[funkychicken]

I know the trading firm I work at will be making heavy use of reflection the second it lands… we had a literal party when it made it into the standard.

[mylons]

sure, but instagram was created by a handful of people with python and got a billion dollar exit in 2012.

[birn559]

What has that to do with the topic? Warren Buffet made billions without any do knowledge about programming or deeper knowledge about computers.

[motorest]

> sure, but instagram was created by a handful of people with python and got a billion dollar exit in 2012.

Facebook famously felt compelled to hire eminent C++ experts to help them migrate away from their PHP backend. I still recall reading posts on the Instagram Engineering blog on how and where they used C++.

[ozgrakkurt]

What is this culture of judging everything by amount of money.

No one needs a billion dollars, it is practically irrelevant unless you are running on greed

[emmelaich]

And Youtube used Python almost exclusively at the start AFAIK.

Then again Scott Meyers said he's never written a C++ program professionally.