I agree, just because it can be a barrier for contributions. Contributors who want to debug, bug fix or add features might end up having to be proficient not in

I agree, just because it can be a barrier for contributions. Contributors who want to debug, bug fix or add features might end up having to be proficient not in just Python, but also whatever extensions are written in. At the end of the day, it's still the case that the interpreter is written in an different language, though.