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by scoresmoke 705 days ago
Ruff and uv are both excellent tools, which are developed by a VC-backed company, Astral: https://astral.sh/about. I wonder what their pitch was.
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That's what I'm worried about. What if we start using Rye, bake it into our projects and then Astral goes "Sike! Now we will collect all information available to the Rye binary and require 1$ for each build"
Rye-powered Python deployment platform a la Vercel?
Anaconda competitor? Many companies in this space start out by releasing new OSS tools and then turn into consultancy sweatshops.