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.
Better title:
Astral products now defunct, SlopMachines make another victim.
Goddamit.
Back to conda for me!
鈥ait no that鈥檚 a fate worse than death
sigh, now I need to find an alternative to uv
Poetry is good.
but uv is better
I know. But not for long. 馃槥
yeah, I guess I鈥檒l have to switch to poetry unless someone fork it
No you don鈥檛, don鈥檛 be stupid. uv is open source, and this just funds that project. Don鈥檛 gaslight yourself.
I know gaslight has lost all meaning but this might be worst use I鈥檝e seen yet
I generally agree with this. Unless OpenAI has a track record of being poor stewards of open source projects, then right now the concern is mostly FUD.
However, this is a bit aggressive. It is appropriate to be skeptical about the intent of a controversial company acquiring another company that made a few popular open source projects or of the future state of those open source projects.
Just because a popular open source project is well liked today doesn鈥檛 mean the community will be happy with the project in the future or even that the project will forever remain open source. Some notable recent examples include Redis, Terraform, and CentOS.
Monopoly phase of extinguishing competition
How are they competition? Astral鈥檚 tools solve the same problems for humans and AI.
I鈥檓 not sure if you鈥檙e 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
They were not competing before? Astral鈥檚 product is private package repo鈥檚. Maybe that will get abandoned but the FOSS projects are safe.
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鈥檙e talking about is a separate issue
That鈥檚 not how competition works. Astral made a different product, served different audiences, and the markets were not competitive. Astral made tools that help a human developer organize and maintain their code. Nothing to do with chatbots. The team now being at OpenAI means jack shit about anticompetitive practices.
This is sad because Astral made good open source tools and I don鈥檛 trust OpenAI to keep that up.
Well that鈥檚 a fucking disaster. BIG hate for this sellout.
I鈥檝e tried uv a week ago for the first time and liked the workflow. I hope there will be a fork that鈥檚 not under OpenAI.
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Godamnit I just switched to astral