alt Hacker NewsWoah, first Anthropic buys Bun, now OpenAI Astral?
Seems like the big AI players love buying up the good dev tooling companies.
I hope this means the Astral folks can keep doing what they are doing, because I absolutely love uv (ruff is pretty nice too).
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a3w • last Thursday at 3:06 PM
JS vs Python wars, redux?
a-french-anon • last Thursday at 1:41 PM
>Seems like the big AI players love buying up the good dev tooling companies.
Would be a good mustache-twirling cartoon villain tactics, you know, try to prevent advances in developer experience to make vibecoding more attractive =)
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thewhitetulip • yesterday at 4:52 AM
Yes just like "Whatsapp is joining Facebook but it'll always be free and independent"!!
> I hope this means the Astral folks can keep doing what they are doing, because I absolutely love uv (ruff is pretty nice too).
That is definitely the plan!