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253 points rbanffy | 1 comments | 16 May 25 09:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.266s | source

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pjmlp ◴[16 May 25 12:27 UTC] No.44004601[source]▶

On the other news, Microsoft dumped the whole faster Python team, apparently the 2025 earnings weren't enough to keep the team around.

Lets see whatever performance improvements still land on CPython, unless other company sponsors the work.

I guess Facebook (no need to correct me on the name) is still sponsoring part of it.

morkalork ◴[16 May 25 15:03 UTC] No.44006359[source]▶

Didn't Google lay off their entire Python development team in the last year as well? I wonder if there is some impetus behind both.

1. make3 ◴[16 May 25 20:32 UTC] No.44009557[source]▶

doesn't print money right away = cut by executive #3442

The first year of free-threaded Python