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they/them — building Python developer tools in Rust at Astral

Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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-...

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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.

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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 13/08/2025

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".

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Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

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

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Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

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 !

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Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Really excited to be working on CPython and upstreaming python-build-standalone patches!

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Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Very excited about this transition and improving the distribution of Python! Reach out if you're interested in getting involved :) astral.sh/blog/python-...

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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.

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Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Obligatory deep cut www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQiO...

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I'm New Here

YouTube video by Gil Scott-Heron - Topic

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Zanie Blue @zanieb.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I have high hopes for a new "Before posting in the issue tracker" issue in uv github.com/astral-sh/uv...

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