Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

Re:Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodyn... by goku12 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @12:08PM (#43117302)

There is another crate in Rust named Nyx [1] that sounds very similar - an astrodynamics library with a Python wrapper. Anyone knows how they compare?

[1] https://github.com/nyx-space/nyx

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Re:Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodyn... by binarycoffee on Thursday February 20, 2025 @12:19PM (#43117468)

LOX is apparently MPL, so a bit easier to work with than Nyx' AGPL, but still at odd with the MIT/Apache2 combo that has become the norm in the Rust world.

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Re:Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodyn... by oakwhiz on Thursday February 20, 2025 @04:28PM (#43120450)

There is an older version of Nyx which is Apache licensed

https://github.com/oakwhiz/nyx-space-apache

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Re:Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodyn... by DarmokJalad1701 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:10PM (#43118795)

There is also ANISE made by the same author: https://github.com/nyx-space/anise

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Re:Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodyn... by helgee on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:23PM (#43118965)

Nyx is the OG Rust-based astrodynamics library and much more mature.

Lox started as a vehicle for myself to learn Rust and at that point I did not feel comfortable contributing to an established code base.

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Re:Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodyn... by aero-glide2 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:29PM (#43119035)

The only downside I see is agpl. Im not anti agpl, but truth is this would slow commercial adoption.

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