You know python is heavily used to create AI algorithms like ML and LLM, don’t you? Isn’t it sensible for engineers of language-specific tools to cater to a wildly fashionable industry that uses that same language? You do realize that AI efforts aren’t going to stop, don’t you?

All of the nice Python build tools are getting slopifed. OpenAI just bought Astral (the folks who make uv and ruff).