After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is ...

Dropbox might have just scored a major win against Google-- at least as far as personnel goes. The cloud storage provider just hired Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language.

Dropbox will cease development on Pyston, but the source code will be available for those who want to continue hacking on JIT-powered Python Pyston, Dropbox’s project to create a faster Python runtime ...

Guido van Rossum, the creator of the hugely popular Python programming language, is leaving cloud file storage firm Dropbox and heading into retirement. That ends his six and half years with the ...

How to write four million lines of Python: Lessons from Dropbox on using the programming language at scale Your email has been sent While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has ...

Dropbox is looking to strengthen and scale their storage service, and it just announced moments ago that it hired one of the senior executives within Google: Guido Van Rossum. For those not familiar ...

The original open source software “Benevolent Dictator For Life” and author of Python, Guido van Rossum, is leaving Google to join Dropbox, the startup will announce later today. Van Rossum was a ...

Dropbox has hired Google executive and programming guru Guido van Rossum. Van Rossum, originally from the Netherlands, is known for creating the Python programming language. It so happens that Dropbox ...