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> What is the point of making every half decent Developer tool a whole startup? I mean, paying people who work on it, for one?

• kitanata 4y ago
  I’m not against folks getting paid. My question is how does one build an entire company selling a slightly better version of a widely used open source tool? Ruff is not strong enough to build a company from.
  • paulgb 4y ago
    Python has become a hugely critical language for science, AI/ML, finance, etc. and the current state of tooling has lagged the language's importance. I can think of lots of ways a company that solves that problem could add adjacent products and monetize them. Enterprise support, tooling for building and deploying custom lint rules, supply-chain security, managed builds, etc.
  • VWWHFSfQ 4y ago
    > X is not strong enough to build a company from. I mean, these are the famous last words of a lot of non-visionaries. I'm not saying that Ruff is some kind of unicorn, but there are a lot of cases where a seemingly small improvement on an existing technology resulted in a very successful enterprise. Docker, for example. There are others that I'm sure people will chime in with.
    • rwalle 4y ago
      Maybe your answer is correct but it is not useful, at all. It does not answer the question, like, providing real solutions.
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