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The author addresses that in the article. Python can scale but then developers would have to work with unintuitive async code. You can think of it as a form of tech debt - every single decision they make will take longer because they have to learn something new and double check if they're doing it the right way.

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> The author addresses that in the article. Python can scale but then developers would have to work with unintuitive async code

Python didn't cause their problems, Django did. They wanted async, but chose a framework that doesn't really support it. And they weren't even running it on an async app server.

Python didn't work for them because every subsequent choice they made was wrong.

I think you're saying the same thing that I am. Python didn't work for them because they didn't use it correct and so accelerated the amount of tech debt they created. Posthog is using Django and they've scaled so clearly they've figured something out with using Python/Django with async but it probably isn't intuitive because neither you nor the author know of a good way to support it.

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