It's a bit contrarian, I know, but I look at the Python formatter ruff and now the uv package management tool the same people have announced, and I feel partly sad. Because they're both created by a company that appears to be VC backed, and we have seen this show play out before. Someday there will be a demand to make (a lot of) money, and how do you do that with free tools?

If we're lucky, they'll become community projects after the explosions.

@cks this is exactly what happened to the JavaScript formatter Rome, too, as far as I know — which thankfully did get continued as a community project, though it had to be renamed (to biome) due to, as far as I know, nobody having access rights to the original GitHub org.