I think it is quite irrelevant to wonder about such details, as the article proceeds to spout nonsense like The project is very similar to Google's Unladen

I think it is quite irrelevant to wonder about such details, as the article proceeds to spout nonsense like The project is very similar to Google's Unladen Swallow project, which rebuilt the Python compiler, boosting the speed fivefold [..] There is not a word to be trusted, as the author clearly doesn't know what he is talking about.