Astral was always going to have to find some way to sustain itself financially. They weren’t going to just make the best free tools in the ecosystem forever. uv is sufficiently entrenched as infrastructure that I’m sure it’ll take no time for a community fork to show up if they do anything stupid with it.
I keep making this argument elsewhere on the Internet, so I thought it would be nice to make my point all in one place. Python is good now, if you weren't paying attention.
Thanks!
And you're right this is true for storage and at the transaction level where nothing smaller than, e.g., a penny is allowed to move or exist in the first place. But when you're working with interest rates and the main calculations involve multiplying by numbers < 1, you still have to figure out rounding.
Author here. I thought was doing what I was supposed to do by using Decimals heavily in my credkit[0] Python library, but I did some testing and discovered it wasn't worth the pain for me. Test code [1] is available for the curious.
The moral of the story is that "best practices" are not a substitute for using your brain.
I work in credit risk and needed to model consumer loans in Python. I couldn't find a tool that made it easy to model simple loans either individually or at the pool level, so I decided to make my own.
It's early (v0.2.0) but works end-to-end and can produce an amortization schedule from loan characteristics
Up next are the actual credit risk features I wanted from the start.
Classic mistake theory vs conflict theory. Just being right is not a good enough reason for someone to believe you. They have to believe you’re on their side.
I’m sympathetic to the desire to recapture the electricity of early Twitter, but I’m reminded of the famous quote that “a man cannot step in the same river twice.”
I’m on Bluesky too, and it’s alright, but the internet has changed, the world has changed, and I have changed. It can’t ever be quite the same experience.
This makes me think of The Sort, coined by the venerable patio11.
The types soft skills it takes to to be effective in the kinda crappy jobs described by the author can command much better remuneration in any number of other roles, and society has gotten much better at efficiently allocating that human capital.
It's funny, I instantly recognized that iconic atrium when they used it in Severance and my poor wife had to suffer through an explanation of the history of Bell Labs when she was just trying to watch her TV show.