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2000s: "extend Python with C"
2010s: "extend Python with Python"
2020s: "extend Python with Rust"

I have many conflicting feelings about this progression…

@jacob in the last few months use uv is addressed more things that people realize. pip, pipx, github actions, and now a docker image.

🤔 I wonder when they have their own python fork.

@freakboy3742 @jacob No, I'm aware of it and I wish them luck with it.

I mean the UV people taking a fresh take on it using whatever magic they are working with.

@webology @jacob I don’t think the magic is that magic… the magic is money. If you spend money, you can hire people, and *shit* *gets* *done*. Astral’s proving that with packaging; I’ve spent the last week working full time on getting iOS cross compiles working. That’s time that I don’t have unless someone’s (Anaconda, in my case) is paying me to do it.

@webology @freakboy3742 it’s that but it’s not JUST that. Plenty of people get paid to write some pretty terrible software. It’s also taste, and good design, and good execution, and listening to the community, and the benefit of having like a dozen pieces of prior art to learn from, and, and, and …

Russell Keith-Magee

@jacob @webology Oh, for sure. They’ve accumulated a group of smart people who understand the problem they’re trying to solve, and have the skills to solve them. Money is a necessary, but not sufficient precondition for success.