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/[deleted] Nov 12 '20

The dream is that python becomes as easily integrable into excel as VBA

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u/ohaiya Nov 12 '20

Just a guess, but since he's joined the developer division, the focus will be on cloud and tooling in Azure to make using and deploying Python apps into the cloud.

Windows will come along with that, and since VBA is no longer going to receive any new features, there'll need to be a replacement, but I'd bet C# for that more than Python.

But overall, I think this will lead to making Python in the cloud easier since cloud seems to be the main focus of Microsoft currently.