Today we’re announcing that OpenAI will acquire Astral, bringing powerful open source developer tools into our Codex ecosystem.
Astral has built some of the most widely used open source Python tools, helping developers move faster with modern tooling like uv, Ruff, and ty. These tools power millions of developer workflows and have become part of the foundation of modern Python development. As part of our developer-first philosophy, after closing OpenAI plans to support Astral’s open source products. By bringing Astral’s tooling and engineering expertise to OpenAI, we will accelerate our work on Codex and expand what AI can do across the software development lifecycle.
Have zero exposure to Astral. If they were bought out by OpenAI tomorrow, would not notice the difference.
If i were a Rust coder, would have interest. Since i’m not, would be at the mercy of the maintainers.
Saw uv and ruff as a liability. Now? What is uv and ruff. Never heard of it.
Look forward to future discussions on requirement files again. Reintroduce everyone to the
-rand-coptions. How to put requirements into a hierarchy. How to deal with multiple venv. And how to manage requirement files across multiple packages.