On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai < abpil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > Clearly, there are already people who reflect similar thoughts... >From down the thread. """ > 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. This comes as kind of a surprise, knowing that GvR is working for Google, and obviously you U-S guys are getting funded. Wouldn't it be only too logical that Google throws a couple of FTE at CPython?! T. """ > >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Praveen Kumar >> +91 9620621342 >> http://praveensunsetpoint.wordpress.com >> Bangalore >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > > > -- > --Anand > > > > -- --Anand _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
