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Re:Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's Two New Rust-Based Typ... by belmont_sup on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @11:07PM (#44112437)
As a Redditor said:

> 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.

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Re:Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's Two New Rust-Based Typ... by ipsum2 on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @12:02AM (#44112636)
I have never seen a FAANG company buy a pure programming-language based tooling startup.
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Re:Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's Two New Rust-Based Typ... by tjalfi on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @01:04PM (#44118161)
Facebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer

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Re:Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's Two New Rust-Based Typ... by guappa on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @04:34AM (#44113902)
Why would they do that when they can just fork for free?
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Re:Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's Two New Rust-Based Typ... by noisy_boy on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @10:23AM (#44181040)
They also get a shot at the engineers who wrote the product.
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