Not who I would've liked to acquire Astral. As long as OpenAI doesn't force bad decisions on to Astral too hard, I'm very happy for the Astral team. They've been making some of the best Python tooling that has made the ecosystem so much better IME.

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smallpipe 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If Codex’s core quality is anything to go by, it’s time to create a community fork of UV

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pronik 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe they are being acquired to improve the quality of Codex.

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OutOfHere 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That's the thing. To me that says that as soon as cash becomes tight at OpenAI, the Astral staff will no longer get to work on Python tooling anymore, namely uv, etc.

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shimman 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Tale as old as time in SV, why we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards I have no idea.

We need public investment in open source, in the form of grants, not more private partnerships that somehow always seem to hurt the community.

	▲	hun3 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> why we keep trusting venture capital to be the community's stewards I have no idea. They bought the trust.

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piskov 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At least it’s in rust.

Unlike those react-game-engine guys over at Claude

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supriyo-biswas 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Eh, if it turns out to be too bad I guess I’ll just end up switching back to pipenv, which is the closest thing to uv (especially due to the automatic Python version management, but not as fast).

	▲	dec0dedab0de 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I would much rather use pipenv, if it only had the speed of uv. Every interface kenneth reitz originally designed was fantastic to learn and use. I wish the influx of all these non-pythonistas changing the language over the last 10 years or so would go back and learn from his stuff.
	▲	Rapzid an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		People would just make pipenv fast? There are some new tools that can help with that..
	▲	zbentley 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Does pipenv download and install prebuilt interpreters when managing Python versions? Last I used it it relied on pyenv to do a local build, which is incredibly finicky on heterogenous fleets of computers.

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lern_too_spel 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The priorities of the tooling will change to help agents instead of human users directly. That's all that's happening.