The father of Python joins Microsoft

In the early hours of this morning, Guido Van Rossum, the father of Python, officially announced: "Retirement is too boring, I decided to join Microsoft's developer department!"

The great god Anders Hejlsberg (the father of Delphi, C# and TypeScript) also expressed in the comments that he is looking forward to working with Guido.

Guido Van Rossum is 64 years old this year. Why should a programmer at this age continue to be a hitman?

It is not clear what exactly Guido van Rossum does at Microsoft, but he laments "Microsoft’s open source community is so rich!"

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I thought retirement was boring, so I joined the Microsoft developer department. doing what? Too many choices! But this will definitely make it better to use Python (not just on Windows). There are many open source projects here.
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In addition, a Microsoft spokesperson said that the company has no other details to share, but confirmed that Guido van Rossum has indeed joined Microsoft. "We are very happy to add him to the developer department. Microsoft is committed to contributing to and growing with the Python community, and Guido’s entry is a manifestation of this commitment."

In Guido's career, the highest achievement is the creation of Python. Python has been born for 31 years. As the most popular programming language at present, its application fields are becoming more and more extensive.

**Take a look at Guido van Rossum's personal resume and the development of Python: **

• 1982 In 2012, he obtained a master's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Amsterdam, and joined CWI (Netherlands National Center for Mathematics and Computer Science) in the same year. The Amoeba team at CWI builds a micro-kernel-based distributed system.
• 1989 In 1999, because development in C language took a lot of time, during a boring Christmas holiday, Guido wrote an interpreter for a new language he was conceiving.
• 1991 At the beginning of the year, the first public release of Python was announced.
• 1995 Guido immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands in 1988.
• 2005 Guido began to work at Google in 1999. Developed the internal code review tool Mondrian, and wrote a web-oriented code browsing tool for Google in Python.
• 2013 In 1999, Guido joined Dropbox, a cloud service provider that built its main architecture with Python, and developed Mypy (one of the Python static type checkers).
• 2019 In October 2015, Guido announced his retirement to return to the Python developer community as a core contributor to the community.

Microsoft has embraced open source actions one after another, including the acquisition of the world's largest developer community github. This time Guido has joined. For Microsoft, for Python, there should be many possibilities worth looking forward to in the future.

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