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arjietoday at 4:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

Very nice to see these dev tools get an exit. e.g. I love `uv` and friends but did consider that perhaps dev tools are just a bad business and then no one will go into making that kind of stuff. Good exits means more of these tools.

I have only used Astro for toy stuff but it seemed neat. Congrats to the team.

EDIT: To put paid to the sidebar discussion below, yes I meant "for instance, consider `uv`; they might do these nice things and go nowhere but now that companies like Bun and Astro have gotten acquired, it demonstrates a future for others; therefore we will get more things like Astral's `uv` and so on". Hope that clarifies.


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css_apologisttoday at 6:33 PM

i'm interpreting this in the reverse

if dev tools can only be "monetized" by being bought out, it does not feel sustainable on any level

we will see companies attempt to do things like close source these projects, go subscription based, or just straight up drop support

there is no incentives for cloudflare to make astro better, or even keep it around

same goes with bun, svelte, and i'm sure countless others

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woodruffwtoday at 4:55 PM

This is Astro, not Astral. uv is Astral :-)

Edit: OP clarified what they meant, I'm sorry for the misunderstanding on my part!

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