Supporting Zasper

We are happy to announce a co-sponsored grant of INR 9 Lakhs to Zasper, a 4X better IDE than Jupyterlab!!

Zasper is an IDE designed from the ground up to support massive concurrency. It provides a minimal memory footprint, exceptional speed, and the ability to handle numerous concurrent connections. Currently, Zasper is fully supported on MacOS and Linux. It aims to be a versatile, user-friendly, and cross-platform environment that supports data science workflows with ease and flexibility. Zasper is perfectly suited for running REPL-style data applications, with Jupyter notebooks being one example.

Zasper is also significantly faster and uses only one-fourth of the memory and CPU resources compared to JupyterLab. While JupyterLab consumes approximately 104.8 MB of RAM and 0.8 CPUs, Zasper uses only 26.7 MB of RAM and 0.2 CPUs.

The grant amount will be used to financially support the creator for developing and improving the project full-time over the next 6 months, towards tasks like improving UX, platform support, documentation, performance, and creating advanced features and extensions.

The author is also actively exploring ways to make the project financially sustainable through donations and services.

Zasper is revolutionizing the way people engage with interactive computing. My vision is for it to become the go-to IDE for data scientists worldwide, a platform they not only use but also contribute to by building on and improving.

I am very grateful to FOSS United and its Industry Partners for creating the FOSS grants program. FOSS developers need more than Github Stars and FOSS United grants solves exactly that. I believe a lot of developers from India will gain from this program and more FOSS projects will come out from India.

-Prasun Anand, creator, Zasper

Please note that our co-sponsor, Zerodha is sponsoring 50% of the grant amount.

This grant is made possible thanks to our Industry Partners who help us run the FOSS United Grants program. If you are an organisation that wants to give back to the FOSS Community, please reach out to us at foundation[at]fossunited[dot]org.

If you’re an Indian FOSS project looking for a grant, please drop us an email at grants[at]fossunited[dot]org. Find information about previous grantees at https://fossunited.org/grants.