Curious what y'all thought about this -- happened 4 years ago. Obviously it's well within any open source maintainer's rights to quit at any time for any reason, and it doesn't seem like any of the 274 other contributors have stepped up as lead. Anyone's free time is something the community should be grateful to have, and despite the warning the lead is still merging pull requests when he can.

That said, this just seems a little... rude? I love y'all "Rustaceans" usually, and just tried `cargo` for the first time recently to much fanfare, but this is beyond the pale, and comes of as more than a little elitist. Python is the most popular programming language among IEEE members[1], beating the next highest (Java) by a factor of 2 -- not to mention beating Rust by a factor of 6, as Rust is right between HTML and Mathematica...

Python isn't perfect, sure; but we're talking about git. There are probably git implementations in Brainfuck. Am I blinded by my prior investment in Python, or is "just quit using Python" kind of a ridiculous and preachy message to send? It seems insane to me that the only sizeable[2] implementation of the largest VCS for the largest programming language is currently defunct[3]. Microsoft recently employed the chair of the Python foundation fulltime so they kinda own the language now -- surely they could sneak some of their $50,000,000,000 investment in AI to git support? In general, how does a programming language community best account for things like this?

I hope this doesn't get deleted, but if you two think it should, apologies of course -- I'll probably register an account on the Python forums and see what the true believers think.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2024

[2] This project has 5K stars, rivaled only by the libgit2 C library's Python bindings at 2K https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2

[3] https://xkcd.com/2347/