Just pip install oxyde, that's it. The Rust core (oxyde-core) ships as pre-built wheels for Linux, macOS, and Windows, so no Rust toolchain needed. Python-side dependencies are just pydantic, msgpack, and typer for the CLI. Database drivers are bundled in the Rust core (uses sqlx under the hood), so you don't need to install asyncpg/aiosqlite/etc separately either.
a bit tangent question: the communication between Python & Rust, could the pyo3 ser/de of Python objects be better than MsgPack?
Good question. Working with Python objects in PyO3 requires holding the GIL. With MessagePack, Python serializes to bytes, hands them off, and Rust works completely GIL-free from that point. Same on the way back. So the GIL is held only for the brief serde step, not during SQL generation or execution.
I’m curious: why was this marked dead?