On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Praveen Kumar < praveen.python.pl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Google employees are being discouraged from using Python for new > projects< > http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/a2qxs/bad_news_google_employees_are_being_discouraged/ > > > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/a2qxs/bad_news_google_employees_are_being_discouraged/ > I read through the entire discussion, and this comment caught my attention. " Yeah, I was thinking about this, and it's interesting to note that there are very few CPython developers who are paid to work on CPython. They're all volunteers. As such, performance really isn't a priority the way it is for the JVM. The Ruby folks are getting funding (from EngineYard and others) to work on their VMs because people have realized that MRI is too darn slow to serve web applications and they want to fix it. " Well, the supposedly biggest "friend" of open source is supposedly using Python in a large scale for all its developer APIs and the creator of Python works there, so I don't get why Google cannot take the leadership and fund a few CPython core developers to get it up to speed, if that is what they really want. Instead of that they are creating confusion by starting on projects like Unladen Swallow, criticizing CPython and finally this rumor - it clearly doesn't help Python language in any way, though it could be helping Google. In this vein, Microsoft is far better than Google since they actually funded and executed an entire project like IronPython, recruiting Jim Hugunin and giving him a rather free hand. Why is it that Google is not able to contribute in a similar way to the Python ecosystem and the language even with the creator himself being part of the company ? I don't think Google is good for Python language at all. They could be the biggest promoter of the language or they could be finally end up diminishing its adoption, by giving out all this entirely different messages which doesn't seem to add up. > > > > -- > Praveen Kumar > +91 9620621342 > http://praveensunsetpoint.wordpress.com > Bangalore > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
