Astral to join OpenAI
Yikes. I’ll be keeping a close eye on this.
I went all-in on uv a few months ago after watching the hype around it grow. It is indeed rather excellent, but it’s not excellent enough that I couldn’t/wouldn’t dump it if OpenAI start taking it in a creepy direction.
Python has always received a lot of shit for environment management, but I’ve never really had a problem with it. In fact, pre-uv I appreciated the explicitness of building and invoking the required version of Python, then using built-in tools and modules to create virtual environments and going from there.