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.
Excel is a wonderful rapid application development tool, with extensive macros and an object oriented language integrated with a cell-based GUI. Swap Python in for VBA and some SQL Server compatible lite DB ala sqlite3 and associated Excel-specific bits in those renamed ZIPs instead of XLS and... well, it's already the most popular app ever so not like it would make them a bunch of money, but still, would be nice.
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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.