PyTorch and the PyPI supply chain

> Said 'consumers' will need to be willing to compensate the people who do this work; it's definitely not an effort which can be funded with volunteer time (and we can already see how that works in other areas).

Absolutely. Where you have distributions now with significant parts of the important packages somewhat current in their latest and/or rolling releases, they are backed by enough manpower to have dedicated paid people take care of a certain subject area. And they have built their base of enterprise customer subscriptions to fund that in a sustainable fashion.

Seeing Python at the top of the yearly language popularity lists, I feel that something like that should work in the dynamic languages field, too.

So, Conda, right? Is it the only "player" right now doing something like that?