A discussion from 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493
2011: "Languages like Python are shunned upon because they're too slow for web frontends" http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-t...
It is used for internal tool scripting like build, testing:
http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome-for-iOS/Is-Chrome-for-iOS...
http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-projects-at-Google-use-Pyt...
Python being 'too slow' makes sense, but at the same time it doesn't. For example, it has much more behaved GC (and reference counters)
I guess if Google wanted to make it 'super fast' it could. Or use PyPy. Or Jython
A discussion from 2009: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=933493
2011: "Languages like Python are shunned upon because they're too slow for web frontends" http://slacy.com/blog/2011/03/what-larry-page-really-needs-t...
It is used for internal tool scripting like build, testing:
http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome-for-iOS/Is-Chrome-for-iOS...
http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-projects-at-Google-use-Pyt...