Learning to Speak C & Cython: My GSoC Summer with Astropy
The summer is officially over. I am staring at a remarkably clean Git branch, my laptop didn't literally take off into orbit (though the CPU fans certainly tried a few times during local CI builds), and I somehow know what git rebase -i does without having to Google it in a cold sweat. If you'd asked me back in May what I was going to be doing, I would have confidently told you I was going to…
The summer came to an end, but the accomplishments of my Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project stand tall. After a few months of hard work, I successfully built a dedicated test suite for Astropy's C extensions, which bypassed the public API and exercised each compiled extension module directly. This not only improved code coverage but also ensured the stability of key milestones, including the APE Split, Meson Migration, and Python 3.15 Limited API support.
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