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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

How type annotation and type checking helped Dropbox maintain a massive Python code base. While Python is a hugely popular programming language it has limitations, not least of which is how difficult ...