A Python builder gets bored of retiring and joins Microsoft as a developer

 Guido van Rossum, the creator of the popular Python programming language, joined Microsoft's developer division a year after he retired. "I decided retirement is very boring." As he says.

Van Rossum created the Python programming language in 1991 and has been driving its development for at least three decades, claiming with humor the "philanthropic dictator of life" from the Python Software Foundation.

After successfully establishing Python as one of the most popular computer languages ​​of the moment, he announced in mid-2018 that it would take a "permanent leave" and that it would leave the project in the hands of the developer community.

 As a professional he's been in business since 2013 after Google left Dropbox, a platform whose first lines of code were written in Python.

Then, in October 2019, when he was already 63 years old, he decided it was time for his "official retirement". But boredom managed to get him out of it ... and Microsoft's shift in free software seems to be the key to finding Van Rossum his place there.

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