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- November 12, 2020
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Python Creator Joins Microsoft
Guido Van Rossum.Photo credit: User:HarJIT, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 Guido van Rossum, a Dutch programmer that’s best-known for creating the popular…
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| Guido Van Rossum. Photo credit: User:HarJIT, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Guido van Rossum, a Dutch programmer that’s best-known for creating the popular Python programming language, has joined software giant Microsoft in its Developer Division. He announced his move to Microsoft in a recent Twitter post, stating that he’ll “make using Python better for sure” at the company. Van Rossum has taken the role of ‘Distinguished Engineer’ at Microsoft, a high-level role that’s usually reserved for a few numbers of personnel in the low double-digits.
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
Before now, Van Rossum seemingly retired from the usual work-life after spending six years at cloud storage company Dropbox as a high-level engineer. He joined Dropbox in 2013 and left just last year with a statement of retirement. As indicated by his recent tweet, he “decided that retirement was boring” and joined another software company.
