Nim is a bad name for a language TBF. Its too short and a common sound and letter sequence (e.g. in words like "nimble", "numbus", "denim"). It is going to be used elsewhere.
If the repo was structured as a package e.g. with project.toml and such there would be an even faster one-liner with pipx (https://pipx.pypa.io/latest/):
Astral tooling is great and brings new energy into python land but what is the long game of all astral projects?
Integrate them into python natively?
Be gone in 5 years and leave unmaintained tooling behind?
Rug pull all of us with a subscription?
They'll most likely pursue some sort of business source licensing, where you will not be allowed to deploy apps in production using their tooling without the business paying some kind of subscription. I understand that none of their existing products fit this use case, but it will probably be a similar approach. VCs are not charities.
> The standard VC business model is to invest in stuff that FAANG will buy from them one day. The standard approach is to invest in stuff that's enough of a threat to FAANG that they'll buy it to kill it, but this seems more like they're gambling on an acqui-hire in the future.
I don’t think any of these questions are specific to Astral and can be applied to pretty much any project. ‘Be gone in 5 years and leave unmaintained tooling’ seems particularly plausible with regard to Facebook’s tooling.
"Despite its name, TeXmacs is not a front-end to TeX or LaTeX.[mHowever, TeXmacs documents can be converted to either TeX or LaTeX. LaTeX also can be imported (to some extent), and both import from and export to HTML, Scheme, Verbatim, and XML is provided; the HTML export is stylable with CSS (since version 1.99.14). There is a converter for MathML as well, and TeXmacs can output PDF and PostScript for printing."
Typst is Apache licensed. I install it with "cargo install --locked typst-cli". The subscription model is for their web interface with storage. I write simple worksheets for a living, so I've been using it instead of TeX lately. (I've use LaTeX or plain TeX since around 1990.)
Surely both of these characterizations depend on the person? I can believe that integral_t^oo is idiomatic if that's what you're used to, and maybe it's easier to pick up from scratch, but, for someone long used to TeX, it just makes me wonder what other unpleasant surprises someone else will have decided are actually pleasant.
A friendly person on the internet already put up the typst-to-mathml part of this [0]. I have been considering the ultimate yak-shave of building a static site generator around this...
How does this integrate into existing services like aws glue? I fear that despite polars being good/better it will lack adoption since it cannot easily be integrated.
I think this is the main problem with this, like H2O offers Spark integration as well their own clustering solution, but most people with this problem have their own opinionated and bespoke needs.
