Reading up on Astral
3 deep · digging since dec 17, 25
- Astral to Join OpenAI
Astral, the company behind Python tools Ruff and uv, has agreed to join OpenAI's Codex team to continue building open-source tooling at the frontier of AI and software development.
- Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
OpenAI acquires Astral, the company behind uv, ruff, and ty, to accelerate Codex development while promising continued open-source support.
- Announcing the Beta release of ty
Astral released the beta of ty, a Rust-based Python type checker and language server that is significantly faster than mypy and Pyright.