I've never heard of it and I've been using Python since around 2008, including mathematical stuff like Scipy / Numpy. Sometimes people like to find old stuff and share it since it's new to others.

python3 didn't exist 14 years ago, and neither did the ipython notebook, and sympy has code specific to both. /usr/share/doc/python3-sympy/changelog.Debian.gz on my laptop shows six new versions in 02022, three new versions in 02021, and eleven new versions in 02020. is it possible you're looking at an outdated mirror of sympy?

oh, i see you said 'oldest commit'. well, what's news about sympy is the 14 years of commits since then

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

and, though it's not even stated, it includes more than news

Oldest commit was from today: https://github.com/sympy/sympy

Where are you getting 14 years from?