@glyph @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies As much as I hate VC, I find this whole genre of pearl-clutching around uv weird. FOSS projects flame out all the time too. If Frost loses interest, there’s no PDM anymore. Same for Ofek and Hatch(ling).
I fully expect Astral to flame out and us having to fork/take over—it’s the circle of FOSS. To me uv looks like a genius sting to trick VCs into paying to fix packaging. We’ll be better off either way.
@hynek @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies Even in the best case, Rust is more expensive and difficult to maintain, not to mention "non-native" to the average customer here (who presumably knows enough Python to dip into helping out with maintenance if Ofek or Frost wanders off.
@glyph I think the Rust argument is the least convincing. I know every analogy is flawed, but an awful lot of the scientific Python ecosystem depends on C/C++/Cython and I don't think those are "more native" to the average Python developer either.
