These rust based tools really change the idea of what's possible (when you can g...

bruckie · 2025-10-29T19:35:41 1761766541

From "So how does Astral plan to make money? " (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216):

"What I want to do is build software that vertically integrates with our open source tools, and sell that software to companies that are already using Ruff, uv, etc. Alternatives to things that companies already pay for today. An example of what this might look like [...] would be something like an enterprise-focused private package registry."

There's also this interview with Charlie Marsh (Astral founder): https://timclicks.dev/podcast/supercharging-python-tooling-a... (specifically the "Building a commerical company with venture capital " section)

throwway120385 · 2025-10-29T20:17:08 1761769028

That doesn't really seem like a way to avoid getting "Broadcommed." Vertically integrated tooling is kind of a commodity.

LtWorf · 2025-10-29T22:48:33 1761778113

It doesn't seem to answer to anything.

ploxiln · 2025-10-29T23:09:25 1761779365

hmm how well did that work for Docker ...

tabletcorry · 2025-10-29T19:28:27 1761766107

Take a look at their upcoming product Pyx to see where revenue can start to come in for paid/hosted services.

https://astral.sh/pyx

IshKebab · 2025-10-29T21:56:40 1761775000

Conda apparently makes a ton of money just by selling access to "more secure" packages, so maybe they'll do something like that.

There are apparently 10 million Python developers in the world and pretty soon all of them will be using uv. I doubt it is that hard to monetise.

morshu9001 · 2025-10-30T01:19:21 1761787161

It doesn't really matter that it's Rust. npm is written in JS.

wpm · 2025-10-30T01:53:34 1761789214

npm runs dog slow IME

ghthor · 2025-10-30T02:40:37 1761792037

Yep, it’s next up for language package tooling that runs dog slow in CI and is consistently a pain in my side.