Don't have an opinion about it yet, but I love the website - it's really fast !
Astral
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Re: Astral
#122Don't have an opinion about it yet, but I love the website - it's really fast !
The site is very well done and impressed me too. It's built with Next and noticed Astral is backed by Guillermo Rauch himself.
Re: Astral
#123I agree with all of the naysayers here. Speed is not my problem today, so what's the point if it's not solving my personal problem? Speed was my problem yesterday, and probably will be again tomorrow, but today it isn't and I don't know why random people I don't know aren't invested enough in solving my today problem. Even worse, they're trying to get paid for it! Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mer…
HN is never happy. Everything should be fast, simple, configurable, extensible, portable, retro-compatible, future-proof, environmentally-friendly, inclusive, offline-first, and above all free.
For some people, nothing is ever good enough. Such is the nature of getting feedback from strangers. The sooner you learn to filter out the naysayers, the better.
This tool is probably fine. But positive feedback is usually expressed as an upvote.
Re: Astral
#124I agree with all of the naysayers here. Speed is not my problem today, so what's the point if it's not solving my personal problem? Speed was my problem yesterday, and probably will be again tomorrow, but today it isn't and I don't know why random people I don't know aren't invested enough in solving my today problem. Even worse, they're trying to get paid for it! Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mer…
> Seriously: what does it take to impress people? A mere 1000x speed increase and single point of configuration isn't good enough?
It is great accomplishment for ruff the project. But the topic here is the launch of Astral the company, not ruff the project. And 1000x speed increase is not a business plan.
Re: Astral
#125Yet another case of Python developers getting a basic utility which any other language had available for years and being amazed at something which is an industry standard literally anywhere else. Linter taking multiple seconds is not a problem which occurs in any other popular language. It really boggles my mind why is this lang so popular. Once you write something a little more involved than an utility script or jup…
>It really boggles my mind why is this lang so popular
a lot of problems can be solved well with python.
The frameworks are also priceless. What is an alternative to Django, for example?
Nearly every backend service I create is with python, unless it needs speed or rock-solid reliability. For that I use Go. Dynamic UI/UX I use nextjs with python backend.
Re: Astral
#126I don't use Rust - but can't deny Rust is saving the environment. countless CPU hours wasted by running dev tools written in slow as molasses languages now getting rewritten in Rust. build / lint times * number of times builds taken * kWH = saved energy
heh, I would actually be curious about that environment claim when one balances the amount of power consumed by compiling rust; i.e. the savings for its users balanced against the horrific amount of wattage drawn on the developer's workstations or cloud or ci servers
I now have to compile Firefox overnight because I can no longer compile it and do something else with my (core i7) laptop simultaneously
Re: Astral
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Charlie Marsh is just a damn good developer curious how you assessed this. did you inspect the code or are you just commenting from the user POV?
Eating at a restaurant: - "This chef is a great cook!" - "How do you know, have you looked inside the kitchen?"
Oddly defensive. Why not answer the question?
Re: Astral
#128Yet another case of Python developers getting a basic utility which any other language had available for years and being amazed at something which is an industry standard literally anywhere else. Linter taking multiple seconds is not a problem which occurs in any other popular language. It really boggles my mind why is this lang so popular. Once you write something a little more involved than an utility script or jup…
Coming from Java I have the same thought. Other languages seem infantile in comparison.
Re: Astral
#129Seems cool but i wish they had an auto-formatter.
After years of coding, I have found that taking away the opinionated-ness and doing a format-on-save (ideally, that's supported by the language like Golang) is by far the most productive.
I'm sad that python is still prevalent everywhere, given how terrible the language and its tooling is, but it seems it's not going away with the A.I wave, so companies like this will become more valuable.
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