As I said in the linked comment above, I’m not convinced that this is actually true and we’ve yet to see evidence that it is true.

The Piefed developer responded in this thread here that two devs have begun making substantial contributions to Piefed, so that there is now 3 developers total on the project. I personally suspect the fact that Piefed was created in Python was not an insubstantial contributing factor in aquiring that help.