Facebook-owned Instagram has detailed its solution to improving the app in a way that enhances Python's advantages and mitigates the language's obstacles to productivity in large-scale projects ...

By making the Cinder project publicly available, the company wants to open conversation about upstreaming its performance optimizations to standard Python.

An open source project built with Python and a complete disregard for common sense can render an ASCII Instagram feed in the terminal.

In the first half of 2020, Pysa detected 44% of all security bugs in Instagram's server-side Python code.

And Instagram has done something (kinda) similar with Python. Its audience isn't as large as the one over at Facebook. But 500 million is hardly a small number.