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Posted by ibraheemdev 20 hours ago

Astral to Join OpenAI(astral.sh)
https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/
1312 points | 811 commentspage 10
jimmydoe 18 hours ago|
It’s meant to be bought so at least no more guessing.

Ant is building their app distribution platform, so no wonder OpenAI thinking the same, it will only surprise me if they move so slow.

yoyohello13 15 hours ago||
Time for https://zubanls.com/
pjmlp 19 hours ago||
Great someone cashed out, time for the next startup idea.
merrvk 18 hours ago||
Who advises on these acquisitions?

Or are they just using a dartboard?

Thanemate 14 hours ago||
Any move that strengthens future oligopolies is a net loss for all consumers.

I don't care how good/bad a company is, because I lived long enough to know that most of them started off like that. Good luck to the uv team.

suddenlybananas 19 hours ago||
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.
kelvinjps10 5 hours ago||
This is feeling weird, like now if the AI bubble pops it will bring core technologies like runtimes (bun) and package managers (astral) now what's next? vite?
maltelau 18 hours ago||
Wtf!? Is this an early April's fools? I've been recommending astral tools left and right, Looks like I'm out a good chunk of social capital on that.

Who's organizing a fork, or is python back to having only shitty packaging available? :(

the__alchemist 18 hours ago|
I can get pyflow back to a maintained state and iron out the bugs if that would help. It's the same concept as uv, just kind of buggy and I haven't touched it in 6 years.
6thbit 12 hours ago|
py stuff aside for a sec, having this team working on Codex will be huge.

I didn’t see a way they ever dethroned Claude until now.

Happy as a Codex user, gloomy as a Python one.

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