[anankaie]

> Google and Microsoft have already shut down several failed projects

Could you elaborate on this?

[bgwalter]

Sure: Google fired the Python language team in 2024 that contained a couple of the worst politicians who were later involved in slandering Tim Peters.

Before that, Google moved heavily from Python to Go.

Microsoft fired the "Faster CPython Team" this year.

[mixmastamyk]

It’s unlikely those layoffs are related to that, but rather the industry at large and end of zirp. Those type of folks are common in bigtech companies as well.

For example the dart/flutter team was decimated as well.