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Attumm
Maat
Python2020–2023
Attumm / Maat

Maat

Validation and transformation library powered by recursive descent validation algorithm. Made to be extended for any kind of project.

2Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
31GitHub stars
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Validation and transformation library powered by recursive descent validation algorithm. Made to be extended for any kind of project.

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HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-05-09 12:01:18 UTC to 2023-04-23 22:27:36 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Personally, I think it's great to have many projects solving the same problem and pushing each other further. Although the differences between the faster validations are small, the older ones were quite slow. This will save unnecessary CPU cycles, making it eco-friendly. And now the bar will be even higher with a Rust version, which is really great. [0]Maat is 2.5 times faster than Pydantic on their own benchmark, as stated in their readme. [0]https://github.com/Attumm/Maat
In Pydantic V2 leverages Rust's Superpowers [video]
Pydantic is using classes and typehinting. The new dataclasses style. Currently Maat doens't have a parser for dataclasses, it could come in the future. Pydantic works great with typehinting. Maat was created before dataclasses existed. For validation Maat offers the same. But it also allows for some really neat features such as validation on encrypted data. https://github.com/Attumm/Maat/blob/main/tests/test_validati... Since validation is written as dictionaries its possible to store the validations in caching db such as Redis. And since its simple its easy to extend for anyone use case. And there are no other dependencies. Benchmarks of pydantic has Maat around twice as Pydantic.
In Parse, Don't Validate (2019)

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