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Requests is undeniably unmissable for anyone willing to start in the Python ecosystem. Yet the community is broadly unaware of how sad the situation has become.
Due to dramatics circumstances, it was partially locked and put in "maintenance mode" only, meaning that it would no longer evolve (features speaking).
Some of you may have eared, more than six years ago that Requests was working toward a major version, namely the V3. There was even a completed fundraiser with a substantial amount, around $30k.
At the time, there was a plan for bringing Async, and HTTP/2 support (most notably). You'll guess that none of exposed promises ever landed.
Let's be clear, this article is not about saying "Requests maintainers are bad" but rather saying we don't agree, and everyone is entitled to his choices.
For many years now, Requests has been frozen. Being left in a vegetative state and not evolving, this blocked millions of developers from using more advanced features.
