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I'm not sure if Guido is the original author, but he at least comments on it. There are also quite a few excerpts going back to the origins of Python where Guido plainly states that the goals of the language are ease, brevity and developer productivity - I've never seen performance as a stated goal.
Does anybody use PyPy, Jython or IronPython for a production web service? I'm seriously wondering.
I've had the misfortune of having had to use Jython, but just to read Python pickles from a Java service (don't ask). Even that simple use case wasn't fun (the last stable release was also over a year ago).
PyPy looks great for small or new projects, but there is this disclaimer: "PyPy has alpha/beta-level support for the CPython C API, however, as of 2.1 release this feature is not yet complete. Many libraries will require a bit of effort to work..." - this has caused PyPy to be incompatible with every large Python project I've ever worked on.
And well, personal (dis)taste in .NET aside, IronPython hasn't had a release in over a year either...
Where are these projects being used in production?
I'm even more skeptical now that I see a company tried moving to PyPy, and actually hired a core PyPy developer (Alex Gaynor - http://pypy.org/people.html) to make the move, and it still didn't work out.
- The main image in your carousel, the zoomed in tomatoes and mozzarella, is poorly pixelated and makes the site look unprofessional
- You use the phrase "Our Balsamic" in several places - maybe it's just me but this is painful: Balsamic is an adjective* - please oh please finish that sentence for me - your balsamic what? * http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balsamic
- Some of your giant carousel's elements are very attractive looking, but the whole thing is much wider than the rest of the site and throws the whole look off - removing the carousel entirely, working some of the most appealing images into the site in a more tasteful way (really you already do this, and you have all of those elements in triplicate from the top navbar to the carousel to the bottom quad of linked images) and making the whole page fit in a single no-scrollbars-on-common-resolutions layout would be far better and not make me want to leave the site as soon as I arrive...
I grew up across the street from David Johnson[1], who spent a lot of time in Peru an Chile researching the Nazca Lines, and got to hear some very interesting and scary near-death stories from him about run-ins with the companies ruining the area - very sad to see just how much ruining is going on.
Spotify recently opened a newly-renovated office right in the center of Davis Square in Somerville, just outside of Boston. We have many open positions in Data Engineering and Machine Learning, as well as Mobile and Web development. All are opportunities to work on music and listening data at unprecedented scale in an extremely friendly and creative environment.