OpenAI tries to build its coding cred by acquiring Astral
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: Deal helps company build out its Codex team

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.

  • awake@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve tried uv a week ago for the first time and liked the workflow. I hope there will be a fork that’s not under OpenAI.

      • Axum@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        56·
        2 days ago

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

        • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
          10·
          2 days ago

          I know gaslight has lost all meaning but this might be worst use I’ve seen yet

        • rhymepurple@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          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’t 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.

      • wingswithbones@lemmus.orgEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        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.zipEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          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.orgEnglish
            12·
            2 days 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

            • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              2 days ago

              That’s 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’t trust OpenAI to keep that up.