Thanks for all the amazing work! I have Noob question. Wouldn't this get the funding back? Or would that not be preferable way to continue(as opposed to just volunteer driven)?

Like this is a big deal to get a project to a state where volunteers are spun up and actively breaking tasks and getting work done, no? It's a python JIT something I know next to nothing about — as do most application developers — which tells one how difficult this must have been.