Some context: we just finished proving out OpenID Connect as a reasonable protocol for websites (seriously, there's good stuff hiding in there) and are now working on rewriting the prototypes so that they're stable and worthy of trusting. Expect an announcement in the next month, along with better documentation and on-ramps for contributors.

why is it written in python? why not something that compiles and runs well on all platforms?

From the readme:

> Let's Auth 1.0 will ship as a single, statically compiled binary. Pre-1.0, we will use a variety of dynamic languages for prototyping.

nice :)

> something that compiles and runs well on all platforms

What would that be? :)