I program in Python (Django) full-time. It's my job. I'm the only developer at my company who knows C. I'm sorry but mere mortals who just want to get stuff do

I program in Python (Django) full-time. It's my job. I'm the only developer at my company who knows C. I'm sorry but mere mortals who just want to get stuff done are not going to maintain their own fork of an entire programming language. I don't know what alternative reality you've been spending your time in (academia? FSF employee?) but it's simply not going to occur unless someone else takes up the burden and makes regular public releases. Notice that usage of CK patches by Linux users evaporated as soon as he went on software sabbatical. Open source is not driven by crowd sourcing or collective effort, it's driven by a small number of heroes willing to devote time in order to benefit everyone else.