Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

I thought this was worthy of it’s own post rather than a sneery comment. Astral make UV which at this point is a load bearing part of the python software ecosystem. This could have a huge knock on effect on the open source community.

I for one can’t wait for non-deterministic package management

“You’re absolutely right, I did install the wrong package and infect your system with malware. I will try much harder next time”

  • JFranek@awful.systemsEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    If it’s any consolation, Astral was apparently already funded by our favorite Silicon Valley crypto-fascist and egghead cosplayer, Marc Andressen.

    From https://astral.sh/blog/openai

    Second, to our investors, especially Casey Aylward from Accel, who led our Seed and Series A, and Jennifer Li from Andreessen Horowitz, who led our Series B. As a first-time, technical, solo founder, you showed far more belief in me than I ever showed in myself, and I will never forget that.

    • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      There is poetry for package management. Apparently uv is substantially faster at solving package dependencies although poetry is more feature rich. (I’ve only used poetry, so I know it is adequate, but I have had times I’ve sat there for minutes or even tens of minutes while it worked through installing all the right versions of all the right libraries.)

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        yeah the dep resolution and instance management being snappy as hell are big reasons why people went for uv, but I suspect this will now get reevaluated (it should’ve been earlier)

        pdm is what you want afaik btw, poetry is outclassed for a while now

        • scruiser@awful.systemsEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Is switching to pdm as easy as installing it, then initializing pdm and remaking the pyproject.toml by adding all the dependencies with pdm? (If I’m understanding right, this basically seems like the same workflow as poetry?)

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          (and that I even had to type that second bit is a big bit of my gripe with python in the last decade)