Why do you say the real impact will take 20 years to appear? I’d say it will be even less, but the market and salaries for IT will grow higher as the brain drain intensifies.
I am interested, I have 10 years of experience as a back-end developer, but I haven't worked professionally with Python but with C++/Go/Node/Rust. Is it a dealbreaker?
Isn’t this the perfect scenario for using a crowdfunded solution?
If you consider “forever” to be 100 years for a person, you could charge 1k upfront, and you would need 5000 people to be able to maintain it.
Is bash the bottleneck? Given the linked issue regarding comments in the file slowing down the commands, it makes me think so.
Why not rewrite it in another PL?