Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty

Summary

OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind the Python tools uv, ruff and ty, and Astral's team will join OpenAI's Codex team. Astral says it will keep building these open source tools in the open, and OpenAI says it plans to support them after the deal closes. The author questions whether the deal is mainly about Codex's product or the team's talent, and notes that pyx, Astral's private package registry, is absent from both announcements.

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