Does this mean pip is finally getting PIP'd?

Happy for the team, sad for users. I just don’t believe their work will continue under new ownership

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

That's unfortunate for the python community. I can understand the move by Astral team, but it's still difficult to accept it.

And so, more core functionality developers depend on becomes dependent on a continuing stream of billions in VC funding. What could go wrong?

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

Congrats to the Astral team, they've done great work and deserve everything.

As a user of uv who was hoping it would be a long term stable predictable uninteresting part of my toolchain this sucks, right?

I am very unhappy about this. Astral tools like uv are key to my work/experimenting process. I think OpenAI sucks as a company.

That said, I hope the excellent Astral team got a good payday.

Astral was always going to have to find some way to sustain itself financially. They weren’t going to just make the best free tools in the ecosystem forever. uv is sufficiently entrenched as infrastructure that I’m sure it’ll take no time for a community fork to show up if they do anything stupid with it.

I will start migrating from uv, ty and ruff first thing this weekend. It will be painful but not being dependent on OpenAI will be more than worth it.