Because let's face it, we depend on some pretty fucked up shit in software development. Much of the shit that we depend on that isn't currently and actively fucked up is in immediate danger of becoming fucked up, a la OpenAI buying out Astral.
So it's a matter of knowing how, when you adopt a new tool or technology or whatever else, you will eventually stop using it.
Using GitHub was great back in the day. They gave OSS projects a lot of free shit that was hard to get elsewhere. But it's clear in retrospect that we needed more and better exit strategies.
With the Astral buyout, it's a good reminder that uv came with very sensible exit strategies almost built-in: reliance on openly developed and published specs. But that only works because PDM exists, and that in turn only works because PEPs are collaboratively developed, and so forth.
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