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Astral is a VC baked company. For now their decisions align with the community needs and everyone is happy. But what will gonna be when their investors needs
by akagusu 2y ago
Astral is a VC baked company.
For now their decisions align with the community needs and everyone is happy.
But what will gonna be when their investors needs divert from the community needs or worse, they fail to meet their investors financial expectations and shutdown?
- kjksf 2y agoThen you'll have a very good, open-source, MIT licensed tool financed by silly VCs. If it gets abandoned the community will be able to take over its maintenance or fork you. Tails, you win, heads, you win. https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/blob/main/LICENSE https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/blob/main/LICENSE
- neves 2y agoMaybe it also explains why so many positive comments in HN. Probably a biased sample. I'd like to hear some disadvantages of using Astral in this point of time and how they plan to improve.