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Nice idea in theory, in practice is how many folks down in Nebraska are going to show up.

• zem 8mo ago
  as someone who works in the python tooling space I think you underestimate the number of people who would be willing to do this. i would personally help maintain a community fork of ruff if it got to the point where one was needed, though I draw the line at moving to nebraska first.
  • pjmlp 8mo ago
    It is proven by the amount of projects that eventually falled by the wayside after the first wave of volunteers run out of steam to keep it going post-fork.
    • zem 8mo ago
      that is a fair point, but I also believe that that happens when the project gets superseded by something better. I do not think ruff or uv will die because people went back to earlier solutions, if openai does kill them and the community fork runs out of steam it will be because someone made an even better tool, possibly incorporating the lessons learnt from astral's efforts.
• MangoCoffee 8mo ago
  isn't that's the point of open source software? like when Oracle bought Sun. someone forked mysql and created mariadb.
  • pjmlp 8mo ago
    Indeed, and how much has it kept the pace versus the alternatives? Also, the survivors are the exception, not the rule.
  • JetSpiegel 8mo ago
    "Someone" was the original mysql creator. It was a brilliant way to get Oracle cash then havr his own company. Getting a cake, and eat it too.