Three Core Python developers (including Eric Snow and Mark Shannon) from the Faster CPython team were fired from Microsoft in May 2025.
Quote from Mike Droettboom (CPython Core Developer):
It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft's support for the Faster CPython project was canceled yesterday, and my heart goes out to the majority of the team that was laid off. A hard day for me, but even harder for others.
Related:
Implementation plan for speeding up CPython (Oct, 2020)
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Three Core Python developers (including Eric Snow and Mark Shannon) from the Faster CPython team were fired from Microsoft in May 2025.
Quote from Mike Droettboom (CPython Core Developer):
It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft's support for the Faster CPython project was canceled yesterday, and my heart goes out to the majority of the team that was laid off. A hard day for me, but even harder for others.
Related:
Implementation plan for speeding up CPython (Oct, 2020)
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