uv: Unified Python packaging (astral.sh)

submitted 3 months ago by uthredii@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev

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TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.

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[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

Having used it for work, I really don't understand the appeal, especially when compared to tools like Poetry. Uv persists in the dependency on requirements.txt, doesn't streamline the publishing process, and contrary to the claims, it's not a drop-in replacement for pip, as the command line API is different.

It's really fast, which is nice if you're working on a nightmare codebase with 3000 dependencies, but most of us aren't, and Poetry is pretty damned fast.

If uv offered some of what Poetry does for me, if at the very least we could finally do away with requirements.txt and adopt something more useable -- baked into pyproject.toml of course -- then I'd be sold. But this is just faster pip.

[-] uthredii@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

Early on uv was only trying to replace pip. This latest update is a big step towards becoming a poetry (and pyenv/pipx) replacement too.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Now if they could just help defuckulate the Pypi search problem.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

It's written in Rust.

All jokes about the Rust Evangelism Strike Force aside, various parts of the industry are finally starting to think that "If it's written in Rust, we have less to worry about with respect to that thing, so we won't torture the devs and force them to sneak it in the side door anyway."

It's a thing that I've been seeing at work for the last few years.