I love uv and the other tooling Astral has built. It really helped reinvigorate my love for Python over the last year.
Something like this was always inevitable. I just hope it doesn’t ruin a good thing.
Astral to Join OpenAI
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#82I am actually quite saddened by this. It's very unlikely that' I'll keep using uv, now. I don't trust this kind of shit.
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#83Codex team now has the legends who created Pyright and UV/Ruff/Ty.
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#84This is a serious risk for the open source ecosystem and particularly the scientific ecosystem that over the last years has adopted many of these technologies. Having their future depend on a cap-ex heavy company that is currently (based on reporting) spending approx. 2.5 dollars to make a dollar of revenue and must have hypergrowth in the next years or perish is less than ideal. This should discourage anybody doing…
Would single maintainers of critical open source projects be a better situation?
Are you not aware of foundations?
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#85Mixed feelings, happy for the guy, he deserves it. Unhappy about whom he went with, though not sure if he had other buyers / offers in the mix?
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#87If you don't pay for your tools and support OSS financially, this is what happens. Although Astral being VC funded was already headed this way anyway. Deno, Pydantic (Both Sequoia) will go the same way as with many other VC backed "open source" dev tools. It will go towards AI companies buying up the very same tools, putting it in their next model update and used against you. Rented back to you for $20/mo.
There is nothing wrong with big money backing, often is necessary for long term bets, but rug pulling is a serious threat. VC funded open source has become a pattern/playbook.
It would have been fine if the Astral team was acqui-hired and uv, ruff, etc were donated to the PSF or Linux Foundation for further sponsorship and support.
But the pressure because they raised VC funding, I would imagine Astral needed an actual exit and OpenAI saw Astral's tools as an asset.
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#88What happens when OpenAI’s burn dries up their cash?
$110B will surely last for at least a year.
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#90Solid move by Altman - good signal they’re serious about capturing the Claude Code market from Anthropic. What I don’t understand is why hasn’t anyone bought Jetbrains yet. Atlassian? AWS? Google?
Atlassian? Bitbucket as a platform for agentic development.. shudder