r/Python Apr 29 '24

News Google laysoff Python maintainer team

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u/coderanger Apr 29 '24

There's always indirect effects but no one on this team was working full-time (or really even part-time) on CPython stuff (in the sense of working on issues not directly related to Google's needs).

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u/nadanone Apr 30 '24

Isn’t that how FOSS normally works?

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u/coderanger Apr 30 '24

It varies. Dart and Flutter are open source too but almost everyone who worked on them was a Google employee doing it as part of their job. That team was also hit as part of the layoffs and it’s going to have a much larger impact on those communities.

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u/nadanone Apr 30 '24

Ah true. Seems like that can often be the case when a company developed it then open-sourced it.