Comment by lacker
Comment by lacker a day ago
I'm a little worried on behalf of the "Python Language Tooling Team" at Meta, because uv has been so popular, and I wouldn't be surprised if ty wins out in this space.
So watch out, or this will become like Atom or Flow, an internal competitor of a technology that is surpassed by the more popular external open source version, leaving the directors/vps muttering to themselves "It's too bad that this team exists at all. Could we get rid of them and just switch to the open source stuff?"
Perhaps just something for the manager (Aaron Pollack?) to keep an eye on....
Hey Kevin, we overlapped for a bit during your time at FB when I was working on Flow. Nice to hear from you!
I’m working on Pyrefly now, but worked on Flow for many years before. For what it’s worth, we are taking a different approach compared to Flow and have explicitly prioritized open source and community building, something I know we both care a lot about.
Of course, nothing is guaranteed and we’ve seen plenty of volatility in bigco investments to infra lately, but I do believe we’re starting this journey on the right foot.
Cheers, Sam