Astral
Fast, unified, futuristic Python developer tooling
Astral builds high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem, written in Rust. Their flagship products include Ruff, an extremely fast Python linter and formatter, uv, a fast Python package manager, and ty, a type checker. The tools are open-source and designed to make Python development significantly faster and more productive.
Astral builds Rust-powered replacements for common Python tools like linters, formatters, and package managers that run orders of magnitude faster than their Python counterparts.
Python developers and open-source contributors
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Astral
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