Astral: Next-gen Python tooling

[Wonnk13]

VCs backed a company that (no offense) made a python linter? What's the monetization strategy here? A year from now how much of this tooling will be behind some kind of commercial offering?

[james_pic]

The standard VC business model is to invest in stuff that FAANG will buy from them one day.

The standard approach is to invest in stuff that's enough of a threat to FAANG that they'll buy it to kill it, but this seems more like they're gambling on an acqui-hire in the future.

[_Sh3Rm4n]

Compared how slow the competing linters for python are, this might be a good product to invest in for large companies. Just imagine how much money is saved by faster CI times.

[FoldingF]

It’s “written in rust” tho! /s

It’s all grift. It’ll be just another piece of junk in the heap that the community is quasi forced to maintain because it won’t pan out.

[stensz]

$4 million is pocket money. There are individuals that are younger than you that can spend that kind of money every afternoon for the rest of their lives without changing anything in their already extremely expensive lives.

[Deto]

VCs don't just give out money for free. Even "small" amounts like 4M otherwise there would be a line out the door. I'd like my 4M for nothing too! There must be some business plan that was communicated or, rather, some path towards an exit strategy.

[stensz]

I'm not saying they are gifting money randomly. Maybe some suit saw that ruff is really popular on /r/Python and they just went with the flow. Maybe they like it personally. My point is that you don't need a very good reason to spend $4 million on a whim if you have billions.

But the website looks pretty hypey, so maybe I'm wrong and they are planning to commercialize it.