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		o1y32 on June 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reddit 1.0 was written in Lisp I would argue that for such a small website (in the sense of both codebase size and traffic), which language is used does not matter, and is almost purely a personal preference.

susam on June 17, 2023 [–]

Yes, it was personal preference indeed. I have written a little more about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32980708

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