Astral Joins OpenAI: The Interview talkpython.fm/episodes/show/… OpenAI acquired Astral, the team behind uv, Ruff, and ty. So what actually happens to the tools a lot of the Python world now depends on? With @charliermarsh and @mkennedy

When the deal was announced, the loudest reaction I saw was some version of "is uv toast?" It's a fair question. These tools became core infrastructure fast, and people are right to care where they're headed.

So I sat down with Charlie Marsh, the founder of Astral, now leading the same team inside OpenAI on the Codex group, to ask directly. A few things that stood out:

1. The counterintuitive part: Charlie thinks they may ship more open source at OpenAI than they did at Astral, not less. As a venture-backed company, the work had to stay coupled to a commercial vision. That pressure is off now.