> "It's been a tough couple of days," Droettboom wrote. "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."

How many team members are left?

After a year with record earnings, be loyal to team mates, not the company.

can I hope for the layoffs to be in the typescript team?

Edit: yes, looks like https://fosstodon.org/@rbuckton/114502046343131907 - nothing personal

It's all about suppressing wages and increasing profits. Knowledge workers need to realize we're not individually immune to being treated badly by mercurial corporate exploitation, and that solidarity and worker-owner co-ops offer a glimmer of home that niches of stability and happiness are possible.

> Microsoft winnows: Layoffs hit software engineers hard

Well, some of them were just rounding corners. /s