[atdt]

Armin advocates for 'uv' to dominate the space, but acknowledges it could be rug-pulled due to its VC backing. His solution to this potential issue is that it's "very forkable." But doesn't forking inherently lead to further fragmentation, the very problem he wants to solve?

Any tool hoping to dominate the Python packaging landscape must be community-driven and community-controlled, IMO.

[eviks]

Forking doesn't inherently lead to further fragmentation: the level of fragmentation post forking can still be much lower than before consolidating on the rug-pulled tool

(also, how many more decades does this imaginary community need to create a great dominant tool?)

[Kwpolska]

It may be easily forkable due to the licence choice (MIT or Apache), but the choice of Rust limits the number of people who can actually contribute.

[thatxliner]

Isn’t npm VC-backed?

[simonw]

It was until it got acquired by Microsoft/GitHub.