Re:Dropbox Hires Guido Van Rossum
by lmkg on Friday December 07, 2012 @03:14PM
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I think it's a good thing for Python that Guido doesn't work on it full-time, and instead keeps his hands dirty with other projects. It allows him better exposure to the experience and perspective of regular Python users, and the sorts of problems that they use Python to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
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The App Engine team at Google isn't really "regular Python users".
No, but the thousands of people who use it and come up with problems are.
That has nothing to do with it. GP said that it's good for Python that Guido doesn't work on it full-time, and instead keeps his hands dirty with other projects. But this experience of Guido's doesn't really expose him to 'thousands of people' any more than looking at the Python issue tracker would.