[anonylizard]

You can pay for long term support from private companies.

And your scientific context is a distinct minority for python now. Most new development for python is for data/AI. Considering LLMs get updated every quarter, and depreciated every year, there is no appetite for code that doesn't get updated for 5 years.

[epistasis]

Honestly it's very weird to have data/AI be outside of the scientific context! They both used to be a subset of scientific Python.

The code will be updated over five years, but there's no need to be on continual version churn on the underlying language. And frankly I'm surprised that it's tolerated so widely in the community. Trying to run a Node project from 5 years ago is often an exercise in futility, and it will be a big shame when/if that happens to Python.