It is not a lost art, but it is a thankless job. If an extension just works, people take it, the author gets two or three positive remarks and is ignored from

It is not a lost art, but it is a thankless job. If an extension just works, people take it, the author gets two or three positive remarks and is ignored from then on because the extension now has utility status. Much better to write an application in Python using 30 slow Python module dependencies, so there are always some fires to fight and the application always gets publicity.