"Open Infrastructure is Not Free: A Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship": https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/

I can't find the exact number at the moment, but the amount of the PSF's finances that is basically a multi-million dollar in-kind grant from Fastly is uncomfortably large.

What’s really crazy is looking at how much these foundations need vs what some megacorps spend on AI that is powered by a lot of this tooling.

From that perspective, it seems like Faster CPython team should have instantly picked up by any other big tech company. Even at the imperfect rate they were making progress the headcount should easily pay for itself.

Yeah, I have no idea of the politics behind that - but that project seemed like such a no brainer with a pretty small team 🤦‍♂️ Kinda an aside to this article, as I get older, and as I program more (especially web), I'm moving more to this vibe: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-managers-are-evil/ Supply chain attacks last week were just the most recent nail in a coffin that is more nail than wood at this point. I really wish Rust would expand their stdlib, while understanding why they don't. I've been trending to fewer and fewer dependencies per project, and just writing more code myself