I wrote up my thoughts about OpenAI acquiring Astral.
#Python
https://www.mostlypython.com/so-openai-is-acquiring-astral/
MP 164: Will you keep using uv? I sure will, until there's a more specific reason not to. The Python world was all abuzz recently after Astral announced they were being acquired by OpenAI. If you're unfamiliar with Astral, they're the team behind uv. This acquisition has a lot of
TLDR: I'll keep using uv until there's a really specific reason not to. It works today, it will almost certainly work tomorrow, and should work for the coming months. Will it work for my use cases next year? Nobody knows.
Forking something like uv is possible, but not trivial by any means. It will take time to see what OpenAI does with uv, and what we as a community do in response.
If I'm going to leave uv at some point, I want to see what things look like when that's a necessary thing to do.
Eric Matthes
Will Vincent