- https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/openai-acquiring-astral/ (Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty, Réflexions sur l'acquisition d'Astral et de uv/ruff/ty par OpenAI)

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# En français 🇫🇷

OpenAI n'a pas encore fait ses preuves en matière d'acquisition et de maintenance de projets open source.

Ils ont pourtant enchaîné les acquisitions ces trois derniers mois, en mettant la main sur Promptfoo (https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-promptfoo/) et OpenClaw (https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw, en quelque sorte, puisqu'ils ont embauché son créateur Peter Steinberger et qu'ils transfèrent OpenClaw vers une fondation), ainsi que sur la plateforme LaTeX propriétaire Crixet (https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism/, désormais Prism).

Si les choses tournent mal pour uv et les autres projets d'Astral, nous verrons à quel point la stratégie de sortie par le "fork" est crédible.

in English 🇬🇧

OpenAI don’t yet have much of a track record with respect to acquiring and maintaining open source projects.

They’ve been on a bit of an acquisition spree over the past three months though, snapping up Promptfoo and OpenClaw (sort-of, they hired creator Peter Steinberger and are spinning OpenClaw off to a foundation), plus closed source LaTeX platform Crixet (now Prism).

If things do go south for uv and the other Astral projects we’ll get to see how credible the forking exit strategy turns out to be.

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#python #uv #ty #ruff #astral #fork #logicielLibre #openSource #openAI

I don't trust anything that #OpenAI say or promise. Now they're buying #Astral https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/ - and gains control over #Ruff, #uv and #ty.

That the "Astral team will join the Codex team at OpenAI and over time, we’ll explore deeper integrations" - makes me wonder how well these really great tools will keep functioning stand alone in the future.

Can I keep being depended on them for managing my  projects?

AI companies are gaining al the more control of the toolchain! #worrying

Yesterday was just a fantastic day for me. I planned to post on it. Just overjoyed. Strongly tempered today by the acquisition of Astral, and therefore the uncertain future of #uv and #ty (and transitively, #pixi).

I’m gonna focus on yesterday.

I use #ruff as my #Python linter for the speed #flake8 lacked (with a foot still in the other camp for custom rules), was looking at #ty, but hadn’t had any incentive to try #uv.

Others in the #Python ecosystem might be getting rather more nervous… Looks like the venture capitalists backing #Astral will get their payoff: https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/ 💰

OpenAI is buying Astral, and Python developers should probably pay attention

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/openai-astral-codex-python/

Well, fuck. Will my favorite Python development tooling smell like pipi now? 🫣

https://astral.sh/blog/openai

#python #uv #ty #ruff

OMG https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/

#openai is acquiring Astral, the author's of #uv, #ruff and #ty

Well, I'll probably now defer adopting more of the astral tech stack. Or at least until openAI fixes their insane cash burn rate