Thanks for the kind words!

The speed mostly comes from building it on top of Starlette and Granian, while keeping overhead low, so I can't claim much credit on that part. In the end, business logic will be the bottleneck anyway :)

Yeah, I've seen mixed responses on SQL magic. Spring and Ruby devs I talked to seemed to like it (with Ruby active records having a similar feature), but JS, Python and other devs I talked to found it odd.

I guess it depends on the ecosystem people get used to?

Would be exciting to see Astral come out with a server! Though, with the current landscape, it feels like there isn't too much to be done without massive efforts, so I don't imagine they could justify spending the time given how well they're doing in their niche. Could be wrong, though.