Is it the way the industry works, or is the way open source works? Pyrex had basically one person behind it (again, from what I can tell), and Cython currently has ~1 major person behind it. Not enough manpower to support such large endeavors.

Ideally, government or industry would get behind these projects and back them up. Evidently Microsoft is doing that for Python. For whatever reason, Cython and Pyrex both failed to attract that kind of attention. Hopefully it will be different with Mojo.

Here's to 5 years!