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Astral builds high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem: Ruff, ty, and uv, an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.

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Astral has entered into an agreement to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team.

ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust, and designed as an alternative to mypy, Pyright, and Pylance.

pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.

uv is an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in alternative to pip and pip-tools.

Insights and guidance from our engineering team on how Astral secures its tools.

The next stable version of Ruff is out now.

Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.

Ruff adds a versioning policy, fix safety levels, and a preview mode for unstable features.

Manage entire Python projects and even Python itself with a single unified tool.

Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.