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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by benterix on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:44AM (#47441379)
Finally someone competent to answer the crucial question. Taken into account the enormous amount of excellent work you did, and the fact that dev tools are hard to monetize, what was your strategy?
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by woodruffw on Thursday March 19, 2026 @11:56AM (#47441558)
You can find some resources on our strategy in previous blog posts, like this one on pyx[1].

[1]: https://astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by ontouchstart on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:23PM (#47444534)
Are you going to join codex team as well? I am curious about how the codex code base will evolve after you guys joined. It is going to affect Python/Rust toolchains tremendously.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by cj on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:28PM (#47442011)
Check this HN thread from 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44358216