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Comment by eesmith | Hacker News Reader

Something is odd about the timing.

This article is dated "Wednesday, March 3 2021" but appears to be identical to https://getstream.io/blog/switched-python-go/ dated Oct 17, 2017 and updated either May 14th 2019 or Sep 15, 2020.

Both say "Early this year, we switched Stream’s primary programming language from Python to Go", and there was HN discussion about it on Oct 17, 2017 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15495562 (397 comments).

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The Internet is awash with fake dates - old material 'up-dated' to make it appear current - but I wouldn't expect that sort of thing from SED which I have a decent amount of respect for.

Perhaps the author took something he had written before, and really did update it before republishing?

Someone cross posted my content from 2017. It's been 4+ years.

It looks like this blog is republishing the older article. It’s the authors only post on this site. His main blog seems to be medium maybe? The stream.io blog links I found didn’t work so maybe they were originally posted there and are disorganized since then?

The author of the Software Engineering Daily post is credited as Thierry Schellenbach, CEO of Stream, so I'm guessing it's just a cross-post.

Sure, but why do a cross-post years later without saying the information might be dated?

For example, you cannot now "Swap out True and False". That was changed in Python 3, and while many were still using Python 2 in 2019, it wasn't so true in 2021.

I also wonder how numba does with the "simple_gauss(time)*popularity" expression.

I didn't cross post it. Think it's a content strategy for some of these sites.

Dead giveaway is that it links to the StackOverflow survey from 2017

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