> I don't want to continue allowing an online environment with such an absurdly skewed gender representation. I find it intensely unwelcoming, and it's not reflective of the type of working environments I value.
That's the totality of the message.
Weirdly enough, the concept of "an environment I don't personally find welcoming is unwelcoming — and better gone" strikes me as rather unwelcoming and indicative of a diet in severe need of iron-y supplementation.
For those migrating, pyreqwest provides a completely httpx-compatible wrapper.[1]
[0]: https://github.com/MarkusSintonen/pyreqwest
[1]: https://github.com/MarkusSintonen/pyreqwest/tree/main/python/pyreqwest/compatibility/httpxSwitching to other libraries like requests and aiohttp and supporting them by contributing is clearly a better option.
When I say _considerable_, I'm essentially saying _nearly every_ big tech. The one I can tell for sure is OpenAI (not a fan of them though).
Remember xz attack?
Clearly, the maintainer doesn't want to do this job anymore, and it's not a requirement when releasing your code to also do stuff unrelated to programming.