Why “Astral” is being discussed
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A very funny and informative book review of Gilgamesh (based on Andrew George’s 2003 edition/translation) by a guest author was recently published at Astral Codex Ten: http…
by Sharlin · Oct 30, 2026
Leave it to Google to require a Chemistry degree to be able to differentiate their LLMs. OpenAI: astral objects, bigger = better. Anthropic: more pretentious = better. Google: ¯…
by trvz · Oct 28, 2026
It’s really good that folks over at Astral decided to implement it. It was difficult for me to understand what does this protocol provide that couldn’t be implemented with a new…
by ansipunk · Oct 27, 2026
Here is some of what Astral has to say about it: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/
by rented_mule · Oct 25, 2026
I tried really hard to do things the right way before uv, but it was just a major PITA. Poetry in particular looked really exciting when I first discovered it, but I eventually…
by bigfudge · Oct 24, 2026
The community of people fluent in Rust who care about Python packaging and who are not Astral employees is tiny.
by Kwpolska · Oct 24, 2026
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