Better title:
Astral products now defunct, SlopMachines make another victim.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2026
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Goddamit.
sigh, now I need to find an alternative to uv
Poetry is good.
yeah, I guess I’ll have to switch to poetry unless someone fork it
but uv is better
I know. But not for long. 😞
No you don't, don't be stupid. uv is open source, and this just funds that project. Don't gaslight yourself.
Back to conda for me!
…wait no that’s a fate worse than death
Well that's a fucking disaster. BIG hate for this sellout.
Monopoly phase of extinguishing competition
How are they competition? Astral's tools solve the same problems for humans and AI.
I’m not sure if you’re serious but now this company is no longer competing in the market against companies like OpenAI and is instead owned by OpenAI
I honestly cannot help you if that is not enough for you to understand the basic issue
They were not competing before? Astral's product is private package repo's. Maybe that will get abandoned but the FOSS projects are safe.
the team that used to work on Astral now works for OpenAI and will now only operate under its direction and for its interests. Whatever you’re talking about is a separate issue
That’s not how competition works. Astral made a different product, served different audiences, and the markets were not competitive. Astral made tools that help a human developer organize and maintain their code. Nothing to do with chatbots. The team now being at OpenAI means jack shit about anticompetitive practices.
This is sad because Astral made good open source tools and I don’t trust OpenAI to keep that up.
I’ve tried uv a week ago for the first time and liked the workflow. I hope there will be a fork that’s not under OpenAI.
NO
Godamnit I just switched to astral