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Facebook's pyrefly might be the one part that could break up astral's total python ecosystem dominance, and that is probably a good thing. I'm saying that as a
by grim_io 11mo ago
Facebook's pyrefly might be the one part that could break up astral's total python ecosystem dominance, and that is probably a good thing.
I'm saying that as a massive uv and ruff fan.
- kissgyorgy 11mo agoWhy is that a good thing?
- grim_io 11mo agoI don't think that the whole ecosystem should be dominated by a single VC backed startup. I want my tools to be interchangeable and to play well with other choices. Having multiple big players helps with that.
- kissgyorgy 11mo agoMaybe I'm wrong on this, but I rather have 1 tool everyone else is using. Cargo in Rust ecosystem works really well, everyone loves it.
- grim_io 11mo agoImagine if Cargo was not first-party, but a third-party tool belonging to a vc startup with zero revenue. Then that startup makes rustup, rustfmt and rust-analyzer. Great, but I would be more comfortable with the ecosystem if at least the rust-analyzer and rustfmt parts had competitive alternatives.
- alfalfasprout 11mo agoI would hesitate to call it total dominance. There's a lot of good competition arising in this space. If you haven't already, check out pixi for example. And yeah, pyrefly is fantastic. Competition is good in this case.