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OpenAI to Acquire Astral

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

OpenAI to acquire Astral

Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

Mar 19 at 1:05pmWeb
Show threadfnandsMar 19

Woah, first Anthropic buys Bun, now OpenAI Astral?

Seems like the big AI players love buying up the good dev tooling companies.

I hope this means the Astral folks can keep doing what they are doing, because I absolutely love uv (ruff is pretty nice too).

Show threaddcreagerMar 19

> I hope this means the Astral folks can keep doing what they are doing, because I absolutely love uv (ruff is pretty nice too).

That is definitely the plan!

Show threadpiva00Mar 19

Being in this industry for over 20 years probably jaded me a lot, I understand that's the plan but it's almost always the plan (or publicly stated as).

Only time will tell if it will not affect the ecosystem negatively, best of luck though, I really hope this time is different™.

Show threadincognito124Mar 19
Possibly the worst possible news for the Python ecosystem. Absolutely devastating. Congrats to the team
Show threadhijodelsolMar 19
This is a serious risk for the open source ecosystem and particularly the scientific ecosystem that over the last years has adopted many of these technologies. Having their future depend on a cap-ex heavy company that is currently (based on reporting) spending approx. 2.5 dollars to make a dollar of revenue and must have hypergrowth in the next years or perish is less than ideal. This should discourage anybody doing serious work to adopt more of the upcoming Astral technologies like ty and pyx. Hopefully, ruff and uv are large enough to be forked should (when) the time comes.
Show threadgeophphMar 19

Welp. Guess we just wait for the next package management tool to come around. Really thought uv was gonna be the one.

Good for Astral though I guess, they do great work. Just not optimistic this is gonna be good for python devs long term.

Show threadtom1337Mar 19
As a non python dev I really thought UV and TY are great tools and liked their approaches but I don't know how good it is that they are privately held... no a fan