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.

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.

Great that I keep using traditional Python tools.

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

Not surprised at all on this. I've been really suspicious about how hard `uv` was being pushed in 24/25.

> It is increasingly clear to me that Codex is that frontier.

I'm not really sure about this.

Will this be the beginning of the Great Rust vs Zig battle ?

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.

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

I think it’s impossible to predict what will happen with this new trend of “large AI company acquires company making popular open source project”. The pessimist in me says that these products will either be enshittified over time, killed when the bubble bursts, or both. The pragmatist in me hopes that no matter what happens, uv and ruff will survive just like how many OSS projects have been forked or spun out of big companies. The optimist in me hopes that the extra money will push them to even greater heights, but the pessimist and the pragmatist beat the optimist to death a long time ago.