Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by irrational on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:43PM
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> MS wants to build the best tooling for the most popular languages
If that is true, why don’t they buy out JetBrains?
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.
lmao I assure you the department of Justice has bigger things to worry about than the IDE market
Because VSCode is already doing better than JetBrains. It’s adoption as an IDE has been a rocket ship.
Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
by irrational on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:01AM
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But I thought they wanted the best, not the most popular.
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.