Anubis

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

NYU's LMS for computing courses that autogrades assignments and gives students cloud IDEs on Kubernetes.

Adopt it when

A university computer science department with Kubernetes skills wants autograded assignments and browser IDEs.

Watch out

Built for NYU's courses and needs a Kubernetes cluster to run.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Python, JavaScript, Kubernetes and Theia

How established

Established: started 6 years ago, latest release v4.2.0.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Anubis → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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