Zanie Blue
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they/them — building Python developer tools in Rust at Astral
Exciting to reflect on the the first year of open source funding at Astral — looking forward to another year of growth :) astral.sh/blog/astral-...
Astral OSS Fund: One Year Later
One year later: Astral donated $70,000 to open source projects and is pledging another $44,000 for year two.
astral.sh
Today, we're announcing our first hosted infrastructure product: pyx, a Python-native package registry. We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv: it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry".
In the latest version of uv, we've updated the build system for our managed Python versions to use the latest LLVM version and cherry-picked an extra fix for a performance bug (github.com/llvm/llvm-pr...) and the early benchmarks are pretty exciting! On M3 macOS
Python 3.14.0a5 is out today in uv 0.5.31 and includes a new tail calling interpreter which, from some quick benchmarks, looks like a 1.23x performance improvement !
Really excited to be working on CPython and upstreaming python-build-standalone patches!
Very excited about this transition and improving the distribution of Python! Reach out if you're interested in getting involved :) astral.sh/blog/python-...
A new home for python-build-standalone
Astral is taking stewardship of python-build-standalone, Gregory Szorc's foundational project for installing portable Python distributions.
astral.sh
I have high hopes for a new "Before posting in the issue tracker" issue in uv github.com/astral-sh/uv...
