Astral – A performance-first version control system built in Go

Summary: Astral is a modern version control system using content-addressable storage and BLAKE3 hashing for fast, secure, and deduplicated data management. It eliminates the staging area by committing directly from the working tree and is designed with concurrency and correctness in mind.

What it does

Astral performs version control with parallelized BLAKE3 hashing and content-addressable storage, removing the staging area to commit changes directly from the working directory.

Who it's for

Engineers seeking an alternative to traditional version control systems, especially those frustrated by Git’s complexity at scale.

Why it matters

It simplifies workflows and improves performance by rethinking version control internals and concurrency handling.