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....
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