Bill Katz

The founders of Reddit, a poster-child for web app development with Lisp, decided to rewrite their site using Python. The collective cries from the Lisp community are deafening. And the Ruby on Rails followers are wondering, "Why not Ruby?"

Aaron Swartz provides some insight into the Reddit move and why his web.py project was selected over Django. Web.py will be used by two of the startups (Reddit and Swartz's Infogami) from Paul Graham's Y Combinator.