There are talks internally about working towards open-sourcing it, I don't know if/when that'll happen, but it's definitely something we're interested in doing.
We didn't try any of the others, I know that there are quite a few in Golang and Java, but we're pretty python centric at the moment and felt that building it with the tools we have was a better approach.
We didn't try any of the others, I know that there are quite a few in Golang and Java, but we're pretty python centric at the moment and felt that building it with the tools we have was a better approach.