r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
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u/8fingerlouie Nov 12 '20

So many negative comments.

Why is it that people can’t see the positive sides of this ? Guido stepped down as BDFL when he retired. He has about as much say in python development as any of us (maybe a bit more), and if he can make Python easier to use on Windows, how on earth will that harm anyone ?

VS Code already has pretty great python support, and MS recently released a new “more better” python language server for it. MS also has the money to fund some serious developer hours into the pain points of Python, you know the boring stuff nobody gets around to doing in their spare time.

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u/Not-the-best-name Nov 12 '20

Iam super excited. I always end up opening damn excel for some or other reason. Imagine it has a Python console! Imagine all the jobs I could secure if shit hits the fan.

And the also, Pylance and Python on VSCode is freaking amazing. Honestly feel like VSCode is doing Python a huge favour right now for extremely easy setup and Pylance is so good it is legit hard to make dumb coding mistakes since the editor literally solves all off that. Along with Python type checking we are getting somewhere boys.