Python founder takes up a job at Microsoft

Posted on Friday, November 13 2020 @ 12:19 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Guido van Rossum, the inventor of the Python programming language, announced on Twitter that he's coming out of retirement. The Dutch software engineer has joined Microsoft's Developer Division as Distinguished Engineer. It's unknown what he will be working on at Microsoft, van Rossum hints in his tweet that it will be related to open source development.

I decided that retirement was boring and have joined the Developer Division at Microsoft. To do what? Too many options to say! But it’ll make using Python better for sure (and not just on Windows :-). There’s lots of open source here. Watch this space.
— Guido van Rossum (@gvanrossum) November 12, 2020

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