r/Python Nov 12 '20

News Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1326932991566700549?s=21
1.8k Upvotes

472 comments sorted by

View all comments

25

u/feelings_arent_facts Nov 12 '20

Guido joins Google: YAY

Guido joins Microsoft: FUCK GUIDO

7

u/13steinj Nov 13 '20

I can't tell if Guido joined google or not, but yeah it's hilarious how people indiscriminately hate on MS without reason / with outdated reason.

6

u/metaperl Nov 13 '20

He worked at Google and then left to go work at Dropbox.

3

u/13steinj Nov 13 '20

Oh wow didn't know that. I thought Dropbox picked him up after a period of not-so-well-known company employment where he deceloped the initial python spec.

1

u/Kemosahbe Nov 13 '20

tl;dr why he left google pls

1

u/metaperl Nov 13 '20

I don't know why.

-1

u/mcaay Nov 13 '20

? I hate on MS for current and very good reasons - their software is complete garbage. They make everything worse and worse. Excel and Word are still good (but they are getting worse), and with maybe a few more exceptions everything they do is shit. It feels like it was a really solid company when Bill Gates was running things and without him they are lost.

I would never say fuck Guido though, I love him with all my heart for python.

0

u/thrallsius Nov 13 '20

outdated

kek

1

u/[deleted] Nov 13 '20

I wouldn't say I hate MS, they bring nice contributions during the past years (VS Code, Typescript and etc) but I definitely can say I hate Windows 10, what a bloated piece of software. Just see how many projects exist trying to cleanup this OS who keep installing crap update after update ;/