Astral to Join OpenAI

lucrbvi

This is a weird pattern accross OpenAI/Anthropic to buy startups building better toolings. I don't really see the value for OAI/Anthropic, but it's nice to know that uv (+ ty and many others) and Bun will stay maintained!

fnands

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).

Mxbonn

uv and ruff are one of the best things that happened in the python ecosystem the last years. I hope this acquisition does not put them on a path to doom.

suddenlybananas

If they just give Astral money to keep going, great, but I have difficulty believing they would be so altruistic. This is quite an upsetting acquisition.

backwardation_b

I like uv, but not sure this is a good path forward for the python ecosystem.

incognito124

Possibly the worst possible news for the Python ecosystem. Absolutely devastating. Congrats to the team

fnands

Related (OpenAI announcement): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438716

hijodelsol

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.

geophph

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.

tom1337

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

phlakaton

I hope OpenAI realizes they cannot buy developer goodwill.

colesantiago

If you don't pay for your tools and support OSS financially, this is what happens. Although Astral being VC funded was already headed this way anyway. Deno, Pydantic (Both Sequoia) will go the same way as with many other VC backed "open source" dev tools. It will go towards AI companies buying up the very same tools, putting it in their next model update and used against you. Rented back to you for $20/mo.

weakfish

What happens when OpenAI’s burn dries up their cash?

dinosor

I'm confused as to what will happen to their platform product which was in closed beta - pyx. Since they no longer need to worry about money (I assume) they no longer need to chase after enterprise customers?

applfanboysbgon

Company that repeatedly tells you software developers are obsoleted by their product buys more software developers instead of using said product to create software. Hmm.

KolmogorovComp

It's a good news to me considering their open-source nature. If/when they go downhill there will be still the option to fork, and the previous work will still have been funded. Now for those wondering who would fork and maintain it for free, that is more of a critic of FOSS in general.

huksley

UV_DISABLE_AGENT=1 UV_DISABLE_AI_HINTS=1 uv add

photon_collider

Reading this news only leaves me worried about long-term future of these open source tools.

readitalready

I'd expect OpenAi to make some type of Github clone next, perhaps with Astral, or maybe with jujutsu.

WhereIsTheTruth

Greed knows no limit OpenAI is Microslop, so it's the classic EEE, nothing new to see It's like with systemd now planning to enforce gov. age verification People will censor you if you dare say something negative on this website So i guess, wears a clown hat "congrats!"