S2 Episode 4 - Charlie Marsh on Astral tools

Sad Python Girls Club

We are over the moon 🌜 to announce a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🎉 This time, our co-hosts Dawn Wages and Luciana Abud are joined by Karthik Nadig, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. And, as a special guest, we have Charlie Marsh, Founder of Astral and the mind behind the popular Python tools Ruff and uv. 🐍✨

In this exciting episode, we dove into the backstory and motivation behind Charlie's creation of Ruff and how that paved the way for Astral. We explore the inner workings of his team and how they manage their awesome tools, and we get an exclusive sneak peek into their future plans. 🚀

It's a super fun episode featuring tech insights and open source learnings, so make sure you don't miss it!

Links and Resources

• Charlie Marsh @ GitHub
• SPGC's S1 Episode 3 - Karthik Nadig
• Astral announcement
• Astral.sh
• Ruff: An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust
• uv: An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust
• Rye: a Hassle-Free Python Experience
• "Rye grows with uv" blog post
• VS Code Ruff extension
• Ruff language server announcement
• GitHub Copilot
• Holocene by Bon Iver

Intro Song: Pastel

Producer: Blue.P

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