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Could be they never received as many (or many) potential customers.

There have been a few services/apps I was looking to use but had to turn down after talking to them because they didn't support Linux (Xamarin, Codename One, etc.) They all said they didn't receive as many requests for Linux as they did for Mac or Windows. I guess this would be similar.

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I think you're confusing cause and effect. In open source world, you can't charge for something that exists. It needs to be a need to do so. In order to push PyPy into putting significant effort from a core team - we would need exactly that. A big chunk of money dedicated to just that. We've spent all the money we got and we did get something out of it. But it needs to be more seriously supported in order to kickstart that. Obviously people are free on whatever they want in their free time, but unless there is enough to push the PyPy3 support to a significant postion, it's unlikely to move at a higher pace.

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