But isn't the issue here that completely redoing the API would break a lot of code? I don't see how throwing money at the problem would fix this. I don't use any of these libraries, so maybe I'm totally off base, but it sounds like it's more of a tech debt/design issue than an issue that requires the kind of programming hours that only money can buy.
On the other hand if lots of libraries use numpy, making it more efficient and/or capable would seem to give quite a lot of bang for the buck. And it sounds like that's the kind of problem that money can actually solve.
On the other hand if lots of libraries use numpy, making it more efficient and/or capable would seem to give quite a lot of bang for the buck. And it sounds like that's the kind of problem that money can actually solve.