The countdown to the announcement of a new Python packaging project has now started…
Even without acquihires…
@ebassi it's only equaled by JS/Node package managers.
@ebassi uv is the last one I swear.

(UV is pretty good actually though)
OpenAI to acquire Astral

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

@ebassi @lil5 the fact that the OpenAI site asks me to "prove I'm human" shows how shitty they know that AI scraping is.