Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software Foundation

Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by ThePhysicist on Saturday February 13, 2021 @04:10AM (#26122430)

That's a pretty distorted view IMHO. There are a lot of people that are working in the Python ecosystem and improve the language, and while they are not directly paid by the PSF their employers give them time to devote to working on Python. I think e.g. GvR had plenty of freedom to work on his Python projects while at Dropbox. I know a lot of companies in Germany that give people ample time to go to Python conferences and engage with the community, as it's also a way to meet and recruit good Python developers.

So it might be true that there are only a few FTEs working on Python, but the larger community of people contributing to it is much larger.

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by pansa2 on Saturday February 13, 2021 @04:14AM (#26122441)

> GvR had plenty of freedom to work on his Python projects while at Dropbox.

That post was made while Guido was at Dropbox, and it claims he had one day a week?

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Re:Google is now a Visionary Sponsor of the Python Software ... by ThePhysicist on Saturday February 13, 2021 @04:21AM (#26122475)

They talk about maintaining Python, which includes things like preparing and managing releases. Why would you need more than a few people to do that? The core language itself also evolves at a slow pace (which is good), it's not that there are tons of new features every year that get merged into the codebase, so a few FTEs is probably adequate to handle that kind of work.

Considering the larger Python ecosystem the community does a lot of the work, so saying there are only two people working full-time on Python is quite misleading IMHO, as Python has probably one of the largest communities in the world for a programming language, the Github repo alone lists almost 1.500 contributors.

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