as pants had support for pytest and some other pythonic bits and pieces, and (crucially) because i could use pdb while working on the build rules, i adopted pants!

I'm glad that Pants' first-class support for Python has been useful for you. We just released a Who Uses Pants page a couple days ago. https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.8/docs/who-uses-pants. Feel free to add the foundation too! https://pantsbuild.org/register

cool, will do, ill need to get approval etc, but i guess it should be ok. Let me establish our usage first