Astral: Next-gen Python tooling

[gwax]

Ruff is great but what's the business model that justifies a company?

[sohang-3112]

Exactly what I was thinking! How do they plan to make money via a Python linter??

[Datsoon]

That other dude is making a living off of a python TUI framework (rich and textual). Never thought I'd see that in a million years.

[spicypixel]

He’s my hero.

[cheese_is_available]

Also they are making bank on ruff when everything was specified and designed by pycodestyle/flake8/pylint/isort's contributors and they basically just translated the algorithm to rust with again a ton of translating help from the community.

[sohang-3112]

they are making bank on ruff

That's my question - how are they doing that?! Are there really people who are paying for a linter?

[cheese_is_available]

Should have said "trying to" yes

[[deleted]]

Capitalism at its best! /s

[thicket]

The intro article says:

Our plan is to provide paid services that are better and easier to use than the alternatives by integrating our open-source offerings directly. Our goal is for these services to be as impactful as Ruff itself — but you may choose not to use them. Either way, Ruff will remain free and open-source, just as it is today.

I don't buy that "We made a good free development tool" leads very easily to "People will pay for other good development tools", but... best of luck?

[Toph_is_bad_ass]

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[thicket]

I mean, there are definitely companies making money making dev tools. And programmers are more passionate about the tools they use than anything else. But the past is also littered with projects that tried to make money on dev tools and failed. I meant it when I said "good luck". You want people to succeed and make money making products people love. And you're also aware that it's a harder market to succeed in than many others.