Forking, maintaining, marketing and generally all the community aspects of dealing with such a small change is not worth the effort. It’s not the only big 1 in

Forking, maintaining, marketing and generally all the community aspects of dealing with such a small change is not worth the effort. It’s not the only big 1 indexed language (R, COBOL, Wolfram, Smalltalk, etc.), sometimes as engineers we just have to get used to idiosyncrasies between languages similarly to how bilingual people do the same with spoken language.