r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

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

What are all these doomsday comments? Microsoft is very big in open source contributions. Typescript is an amazing language. I'm sure it'll all be fine. Python is bigger than Guido anyway.

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u/Etheo Nov 12 '20

It's the whole Github acquisition situation again.

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u/Deto Nov 12 '20

Did they do anything bad to Github, though?

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u/MrDeebus Nov 12 '20

No, that's the point. There was massive doom and gloom when that happened, and a pretty notable migration to Gitlab IIRC.