NumPy 2.0.0 Release Notes
NumPy 2.0.0 is the first major release since 2006. It is the result of
11 months of development since the last feature release and is the work
of 212 contributors spread o...
Furthermore there are many changes to NumPy internals, including
continuing to migrate code from C to C++, that will make it easier to
improve and maintain NumPy in the future.
I realise that C can be rather low level a lot of the time, but I'm not sure I'd pick C++ to help keep things easy to maintain. It opens up a Pandora's box of possibilities.
Do you think a style guide is enough for an open source code base? Contributions could be coming from lots of directions, and the code review process to enforce a style guide is going to be a lot of work. Even rejecting something takes time.