Yeah, how could a major semiconductor firm which is deeply in embedded electronics find chips ? Mystery ...

Easy to like anything more than most people when you don't like people.

Maybe web server software and hardware have improved also ...

Yeah ! As suggested before, colondot could use a goatse logo ... Fits well ! ( what wouldn't ?)

Sure, tell that to twitter or YouTube. or many, many other large web sites. Hint: they're not using java. Or C. or Go.
Python scaling is a moot point, you'd scale to 16 asynchronous processes on a 16 core. What needs to scale is the web server. And a load balancer. But you were talking about a number of records, where db indexes, caches and architecture + algorithms are what counts.

Not to say python is perfect, hell if you've got java devs use java. But those arguments are dumb.

"october gnome". Or, much better KDE4.0 that kde, Gnome 1.0. Aaah, those were the days. Not.

Wrong, you can write a program to flash from a program. Any bootloader does that. Arduino, by example, is based on this.

Management also is a cost, and yet you don't see brain dead decisions to outsource it. I wonder why ...

I happen to code in python sce 10years and have tried almost every IDE under the sun.
I would LOVE such an immediate feedback on tricky points (with several input vectors for a function and propee initialization and shutdown for code with side effects) , to the point that I thought about having them implemented.
Saying this is python is bull. I guess it would be simpler to implement than in c but even that I'm not so sure.

It indeed can serve as a gaming machine. I'm sure emulators will get ported for simple / fun games plus it'd be great to see humble games on it aaaaannd quake 3 runs at 30fps at 1080p iirc ....

So, as stated by a French cartoon once, the more you forget, the more educated you become.

Except that iirc this is a mostly state owned company. Recursivity prison ?

Clap your hands. Align in movie editor software.

Well, let's say that if you offer a torrent, an open licence is somewhat implied, isn't it ? And given an open license, a well-seeded torrent will allow good availability.

Functional languages ... Err code editors perhaps (emacs) ? Games (jak & daxter) ?