True but those guys are mostly language creators which are unique and rare and kind of needed to get people to start using them. Many of these guys worked on t

True but those guys are mostly language creators which are unique and rare and kind of needed to get people to start using them. Many of these guys worked on the languages alone for years if not near decades before others come in. The BDFL gives some hope that the language will stay true. Other projects a BDFL can emerge or the original creator is polled for direction but largely they are there to keep trust in the platform. Here's some really cool code_swarm looks at Guido and his long journey as the sole fighter for Python, bring it to the masses alone for 5+ years: https://vimeo.com/1093745 https://vimeo.com/1093745 This video gives a unique look at the meritocracy team behind Python and how they contributed over time, fading in and out. See all of them here: http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/ has Eclipse, Python, Apache, PostgreSQL.