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I hope they answer this ASAP. People in the Python community are already concerned that Astral is following the Embrace, extend, and extinguish playbook.
by anze3db 3y ago
I hope they answer this ASAP. People in the Python community are already concerned that Astral is following the Embrace, extend, and extinguish playbook.
- aidos 3y agoIf all they did right now was leave Ruff exactly as it was and walk away they would have given the Python community a great gift. Sure, it’s rendered a bunch of projects obsolete, but it’s because it’s so much better than the predecessors.
- anze3db 3y agoIf they stop development on Ruff today, Ruff won't be useful anymore after a few new Python releases. If the maintainers of the tools that Ruff is replacing stop maintaining them, the whole Python community will be in a really bad place. So, there is reason to be cautious. Astral being transparent on how they plan to make money would be very helpful.
- aidos 3y agoI do get the caution, but I think that even in that case there’s enough momentum behind Ruff for the community to fork and carry on. Obviously it would be pretty crummy to end up in a situation like pyright where MS really have leant in to their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy.
- the_mitsuhiko 3y ago> If they stop development on Ruff today, Ruff won't be useful anymore after a few new Python releases That is true for every single development tool in the Python space.
- theLiminator 3y agoPeople could just fork it if that happens. Since the foundation of the tooling is solid, I 'm sure the community would rally around a fork that keeps it going.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago“People in the Python community”? Yeah. Probably precisely the same people that call everything EEE. You’ll always find people acting alarmist about anything.