GOOGLE HAS ONCE AGAIN MANAGED TO DO THE UNTHINKABLE (OR NOT SO MUCH, ESP GIVEN THEIR MOST RECENT REPUTATION) So Google has fired almost their entire Python team which is responsible for upstream updates in Python amongst many other things. Seemingly the hypothesis is that while they will continue to build in Python but the Python Support Team they have internally is only doing maintenance work and they can bring in cheap labour to do this maintenance. What a dumb and short-sighted move given Python isn't going anywhere for the AI/ML community and core dev team vision can rarely if ever be replaced. Who makes their strategic decisions for them? Some dumb MBA that's good at only doing balance sheets?! 👓 Read more: 🔗 in comments
There is a lot of miss information Google is not removing python from their arsenal. they are removing the foundational team which is in USA and replace them with new faces in Munich. Google is in the AI frontier now do you guys really believe they will remove python?
So Google doesn't want to use Python anymore? I think that Python is as a server backend is a poor choice of tooling, there are far better alternatives. It's good for scripting and Excel.
A push to increase the relevance of Go???
It doesn’t look good on paper - but playing Devil’s advocate, maybe they now have enough distributed Python experience that having a small central team isn’t worth it anymore? Or they’re moving away from Google specific patches (not sure how much I’d believe that one).
Any thoughts on whether, or how this might impact Colab?
It was not fired. The team was moved to Netherlands / Germany where they can hire more maintainers for the same amount of cash burn. Californian developers on average cost 3x - 4x amount you can get in Europe, not to speak about other countries. I am quite sure Europe has good Python developers as well.
Veliki gledaju što rade mali, a ne obratno. Probajte nešto novo a dobro staro. Npr. https://www.triz40.com/aff_Principles_TRIZ.php
Not all MBAs know how to do balance sheets ;)
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3moCheap labour argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125 Everything this team was responsible for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338