On 12 Apr 2023, at 7:37, Stelian Ionescu wrote:
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 15:04 -0500, Robert Goldman wrote:
I don't mean to rain on the parade, but the development and maintenance of numpy consumes a level of resources that is simply beyond the capacity of the CL community to muster.
The NUMFocus project, a non-profit, supports this and other numerical computation projects (most, but not exclusively python), drawing on substantial amounts of corporate sponsorship.
I urge you to cast your eyes on this NumFOCUS sponsors list before thinking that our community could even begin to tackle this task: https://numfocus.org/sponsors
These companies are willing and able to fund this project because NumPy is a core part of software products that yield large profits.
I keep seeing big dreams about major development in CL and my answer nowadays is "go start a company and write Lisp". Even "a small team with clear goals" is still significant payroll.
FWIW, my philosophy is captured by the name of a Python interface library: "burgled-batteries."
Rather than build something new to get this capability, I would prefer to hot-wire someone else's ride....