I admit that I used assembler, Pascal, C, Lisp, Ada, C++, Java, SQL, and lastly Python without a thought to who was paying to create and extend the language.
I was never been concerned for the future of my programming language if I didn’t donate money to keep it alive. In fact, it seemed like every few years, a new language emerged forcing me to invest learning skills to reap the benefits over my “old” language and development processes.
Something has changed that I don’t understand.
Interesting that DI included a complete Go API for the GoPiGo3 years ago.
For education interpreted languages bring simplicity and immediacy, and I don’t see a new interpreted language that I should jump ship to.
For advanced robotics programming/applications C++ still seems to be the best language. Rust is making inroads in the ROS 2 community but C++ is still the recommended and best supported compiled language.
As far as my thoughts on Python Software Foundation: Stop holding the expensive, PyCon, and freeze the Python major release plan. Use sponsor funding to continue serving PyPI - the Python Package Index.
(IOW: stop trying to make Python play catchup with compiled languages.)