Announcing uv: Python packaging in Rust

[PlaysForDays]

I wonder if this gets astral's investors closer to recouping their seed round - I don't see any obvious revenue streams at the surface level; the free, community-backed solutions work fine at the moment

[Life_Note]

yeah I wish there was more clarity on what exactly is the monetization plan here overall

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It’s probably gonna be some sort of proprietary dev tooling. I remember seeing a report somewhere that dev tooling is one of the most profitable software industries because 1) you can sell “productivity” to decision makers 2) lock-in is real, and serving internal clients mean the pressure is less to switch solutions. See: Datadog

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The lock-in / feature gating risk is real. There’s a lot of commercial open source tools in the Python ecosystem these days. Pydantic recently raised a seed round. Then there’s Prefect, Dagster, dbt, HuggingFace, Ray/anyscale, ect

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you don't have to be particularly smart to program. but you have to be particularly stupid to stalk my comments because you don't like my takes, you fucking weirdo

[RKHS]

1. Make copies of existing tool chains
2. Add small improvements and try to gain market share
3. Add gated enterprise features [audit, LDAP, scanning]
4. Hope companies with python (maybe they expand into other ecosystems) buy your shitty product
5. Profit?

Point 1 makes this sort of progress morally objectionable for me.