alt Hacker NewsI really hope astral can monetize without a highly destructive rugpull, because they are building great tools and solving real problems.
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tabbott • yesterday at 10:51 PM
Yeah their work thus far has been an incredible public service to the Python community.
bmitc • today at 12:54 AM
My issue with them is that they claim their tools replace existing tools, but they don't bother to actually replicate all of the functionality. So if you want to use the full functionality of existing tools, you need to fall back on them instead of using Astral's "replacements". It's like one step forward and one step back. For me personally, speed of the tooling is not as important as what the tooling can check, which is very important for a language like Python that is very easy to get wrong.
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"pyx" is their first commercial offering: https://astral.sh/pyx
I agree though. Hope this is successful and they keep building awesome open-source tools.