Astral to Join OpenAI

Posted by ibraheemdev 14 hours ago

https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/

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skeledrew 12 hours ago|

After investing a bunch in converting my projects to, and evangelizing uv, I feel betrayed. I smell stability troubles ahead. Should've stuck to Conda.

JoshPurtell 11 hours ago|

You most certainly should not have stuck with Conda

CuriouslyC 13 hours ago||

The Bun acquisition made a little sense, Boris wanted Daddy Jarred to come clean up his mess, and Jarred is 100% able to deliver.

This doesn't make as much sense. OpenAI has a better low level engineering team and they don't have a hot mess with traction like Anthropic did. This seems more about acquiring people with dev ergonomics vision to push product direction, which I don't see being a huge win.

morphology 13 hours ago|

They do have a hot mess with traction amongst developers. Codex is far behind Claude Code (in both the GUI and TUI forms), and OpenAI's chief of applications recently announced a pivot to focus more on "productivity" (i.e. software and enterprise verticals) because B2B yields a lot more revenue than B2C.

JoshPurtell 11 hours ago|||

Codex is not far behind Claude Code

cute_boi 13 hours ago|||

Honestly, I like codex performance compared to claude code.

wraptile 12 hours ago||

Haha just migrated everything off openai and on ruff/uv/ty last week. Sorry guys, it's clearly my fault.

chocks 12 hours ago||

Fantastic for the team, huge fan for Ruff and Uv. Hope OpenAI continues with the OSS tooling and not introduce restrictive licensing.

testfrequency 12 hours ago||

I’ve been thinking about purchasing zsh myself

looneysquash 9 hours ago||

I don't get it. Why buy Astral? Why not just fund it? Why not just hire the company to do whatever work you want to get out of the team as part of the merger?

Why buy, when they can rent?

(Not to mention, multiple companies could hire and fund them.)

dheatov 1 hour ago||

They don't really care or like what Astral is doing right now, but they have thoughts about what they can make Astral do for them, and they really fancy those thoughts.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 5 hours ago|||

It’s not a merger.

sesm 7 hours ago||

To buy the users

bilalel 7 hours ago||

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

ontouchstart 12 hours ago||

It is interesting to see this after yesterday’s announcement of Unsloth Studio:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47414032

Uv did solve a distribution problem for them.

There is still a lot of room to grow in the space of software packaging and distribution.

articsputnik 13 hours ago||

to be expected at some point, but for the independence and best interest of the Python ecosystem, I don't think it's a plus.

seanrrr 12 hours ago|

My initial reaction was being weirdly sad about this and I don't fully understand why yet. I read the headline, clicked into the link, and just went noooooooo. I really like uv and I hope it continues to do well, congrats to the team though and hope everyone there gets a good outcome.

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