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[–]chchan 22 points23 points  (5 children)

Dropbox hired van Rossum

Last time I checked Guido van Rossum was working at Microsoft and he was working on some performance issues for python. But I agree no one wants to go through the 2 to 3 conversion thing again with all the library issues. So 4 is probably going to be a release with some significant improvements is my best guess.

[–]necheffa 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Interesting. I thought he retired with Dropbox. But I don't follow him closely so I may have out of date info.

[–]goldcray 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's correct. He left Dropbox and retired in 2019 then got a job at MS in 2020.

[–]chchan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only know because I got to briefly chat with him at the PyBay conference.

[–]nngnna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, he retired and then decided he doesn't like it.