Right, we started with boost-python to have a language to play with. There was no standalone cython in the first and c++ had not been so well supported by cython then. So, boost was the rapid way to get a small OSS with few dependencies. However, the "middle-end" ;-) is flexible, so the bindings could easily be replaced, which had been done for Sage then. Partially to avoid shipping boost-python and for performace reasons as far as I recall. Nowadays a fork could soley rely on cython, I guess.
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