Astral – "We're building a new static type checker for Python"

Re:Astral – "We're building a new static type checker for Py... by fuzztester on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @03:56PM (#42871047)

Mojo from Modular?

I've not checked it out enough yet, and it's early days for it anyway.

Just saying it may be worth keeping an eye on.

I've seen some videos of Chris Lattner talking about it.

https://www.modular.com/mojo

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mojo

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Re:Astral – "We're building a new static type checker for Py... by pbronez on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @04:51PM (#42871684)

Looks interesting. Their “magic” package manager scares me though. Not excited to curl | bash something with strong opinions about my local python setup

curl -ssL https://magic.modular.com/deb11637-c8c3-4f76-9195-85af25ef2e... | bash

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Re:Astral – "We're building a new static type checker for Py... by fuzztester on Thursday January 30, 2025 @05:25PM (#42882789)

I wonder why many groups are doing the "curl pipe to bash" thing these days.

I have been seeing this pattern for some years now, and also seen criticism of it.

do they not care about security, or is it not a security issue? conditionally or unconditionally, that is?

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