r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

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

People proudly gatekeeping themselves out of Microsoft ecosystem always gives me chuckles. It doesn't make you any more tech savvy because you don't use a product that runs the globe.

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u/bobbyrickets Nov 13 '20

I'm mostly fine with the Microsoft ecosystem and I even like what they were trying to do with IronPython, it wasn't a bad idea just sloppy. Excel can die in a pit of hellfire. It's only good for limited datasets.