Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/19/openai-acquiring-astral/
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty

The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three …

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@simon OpenAI uses uv a lot internally so it will continue to be maintained. I expect the same for ruff and ty.

Some of the astral team may move to working on other projects though.

But the OSS tools won’t be abandoned because OpenAI itself depends on them.