Guido Goes Google

revividus writes "It seems that Python creator Guido van Rossum has received an offer from Google, and accepted it. Here is also some confirmation."

Comments

I love Python, but...

[ShatteredDream]

I really do think it has been hampered by having a less rigorously standardized basic class library than Java or .NET. It would be great to see Python get some better documentation tools as well so that it'd be easy to generate documentation on par with the Java and .NET documentation.

And of course if Google wanted to really screw with both Sun and Microsoft, especially Microsoft, they could create their own cross-platform web and gui toolkits and a free RAD GUI builder a la Visual Studio for Python. If they could create a Python framework on par with Swing or Windows Forms, there'd be quite a bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth in both camps :)

An assumption

[Anonymous Coward]

Everyone seems to assume that his main purpose with Google is to do Python.

I'm not saying that assumption is not true. It's just that he is a huge talent. If I had a gargantuan project to run, I'd hire him no matter what the language.

I wonder if the management types have figured out that anyone who can create and run a large successful open source project is a much better manager than the average MBA.

Re:His name is Guido?

[moro_666]

I dont think that the name Guido will give you any guarantees on the language quality ...

However, could this be Google's move against Sun and Microsoft ?

Sun has Java
Microsoft has C#

It would be pretty logical that google would like to control something that is comparable to sun and microsoft's bigtime server languages. Python has moderately fast bytecode (google stuff could improve a lot here) and it's got a decent oop model and a threading api. i/o is also usable. i think zope fans can hype their favourite thing in the responding posts too.

i can't wait for the first version of GPython or Gython !