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Astral is really doing God's work in the land of Python. Ruff is an incredible time saver.



How do they make money? Tooling of this quality isn't cheap.


>Our plan is to provide paid services that are better and easier to use than the alternatives by integrating our open-source offerings directly. Our goal is for these services to be as impactful as Ruff itself — but you may choose not to use them. Either way, Ruff will remain free and open-source, just as it is today.

I guess the answer for now is "they don't".


Yeah, I love their work but I am concerned that the VC death-spiral will be painful. I wonder whether they will offer support plans or similar, except that past experience makes me cynically assume that most developers will be “$5? haha, no!” until pivoting to complain about whatever they end up doing to make payroll.


It’s also interesting now that they’ve taken over rye as well. Really hopeful they develop a unified solution between these projects.


Thank you so much.




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