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In a move clearly designed to strengthen its position among developers, OpenAI has acquired Python tool maker Astral. The house of Altman expects the deal to strengthen the ecosystem for its Codex programming agent.

Since its founding in 2022 by Charlie Marsh, Astral has won over a substantial portion of the Python community with Rust-based tools like uv (package and project manager), Ruff (linting and formatting), and ty (type checker) that outperform Python-based tools like pip.

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[–] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Well that's a fucking disaster. BIG hate for this sellout.

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Godamnit I just switched to astral

[–] xep@discuss.online 11 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

sigh, now I need to find an alternative to uv

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Poetry is good.

[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

No you don't, don't be stupid. uv is open source, and this just funds that project. Don't gaslight yourself.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Back to conda for me!

…wait no that’s a fate worse than death

[–] Solumbran@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

Better title:

Astral products now defunct, SlopMachines make another victim.

[–] wingswithbones@lemmus.org 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Monopoly phase of extinguishing competition

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How are they competition? Astral's tools solve the same problems for humans and AI.

[–] wingswithbones@lemmus.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not sure if you’re serious but now this company is no longer competing in the market against companies like OpenAI and is instead owned by OpenAI

I honestly cannot help you if that is not enough for you to understand the basic issue

[–] TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They were not competing before? Astral's product is private package repo's. Maybe that will get abandoned but the FOSS projects are safe.

[–] wingswithbones@lemmus.org 1 points 19 minutes ago

the team that used to work on Astral now works for OpenAI and will now only operate under its direction and for its interests. Whatever you’re talking about is a separate issue