Charlie Marsh announces Astral, the company he founded to continue building high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem, starting with Ruff. Astral has raised $4M in seed funding led by Accel, with notable angel investors including Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) and Solomon Hykes (Docker). Ruff has surpassed 1 million monthly downloads and 12,000 GitHub stars, adopted by major projects like Airflow, FastAPI, Pandas, and companies like Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft. Astral plans to expand Ruff and build more Ruff-like tools, with all tools remaining free and open-source. The company will eventually offer paid services built on top of the open-source tools. The team is hiring engineers with Rust experience and compiler/developer tools backgrounds.
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