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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by flowerlad on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:44PM (#25073225)
In that list, TypeScript, C# were invented by Anders Hejlsberg who works for Microsoft. Python by Guido who also now works for Microsoft. F# was invented at Microsoft.

But as far as Java, JavaScript and C++, I am not who the luminaries are, that work at Microsoft. James Gosling and Stroustrup don't work for Microsoft.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by groos on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:38PM (#25073936)
Herb Sutter, C++ ISO committee chair works for Microsoft, so while not the language inventor, someone pretty important in the community.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by nojvek on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:20PM (#25075210)
There's many folks from the Typescript team who sit on the TC39 committee that are responsible for moving state of Javascript (Ecmascript) forward.

Now that Microsoft Edge is powered by Chromium, there are many folks that also contribute/ have say in development of chromium and nodejs.

This is just a rumour, but Microsoft aggressively hired Chromium devs from Google.

Basically Microsoft wants to build the best tooling for the most popular languages. They have Github + VSCode. Who knows they may also acquire stackoverflow. It's in their realm.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by irrational on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:43PM (#25078591)
> MS wants to build the best tooling for the most popular languages

If that is true, why don’t they buy out JetBrains?

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by jpalomaki on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:34AM (#25079602)
That might raise some antitrust concerns. Microsoft is already a strong contender the in the development tool space and there's not that much competition left.

Or maybe JetBrains is just not available for them. There can be something going on between JetBrains and Google considering Google decided to partner with them on the Android development tools.

Or maybe Microsoft feels they are doing well enough with their current tools. You can't really fit the JetBrains nicely to the "big picture". Microsoft needs VScode, because they want IDE running inside browser. They also need the big old Visual Studio. JetBrains tools could not replace anything, but they would be a third pillar.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by swyx on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:47AM (#25079675)
lmao I assure you the department of Justice has bigger things to worry about than the IDE market
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by nojvek on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:50PM (#25078631)
Because VSCode is already doing better than JetBrains. It’s adoption as an IDE has been a rocket ship.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by irrational on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:01AM (#25079395)
But I thought they wanted the best, not the most popular.
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by kamyarg on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:25PM (#25073787)
They don't claim having inventors of the language, but language designers and contributors.

For example Brett Cannon is also at MSFT, he is a core developer and member of steering council for Python, he also qualifies along Guido for this claim in Python.

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