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Is Python's tooling incredibly difficult, or am I just stupid?
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Yes it's terrible. The only hope on the horizon is
uv. It's significantly better than all the other tooling (Poetry, pip, pipenv, etc.) so I think it has a good chance of reducing the options to just Pip oruvat least.But I fully expect the Python Devs to ignore it, and maybe even make life deliberately difficult for it like they did for static analysers. They have some strange priorities sometimes.
I like the idea of
uv, but I hate the name. Libuv is already a very popular C library, and used in everything from NodeJS to Julia to Python (through the popularuvloopmodule). Every time I see someone mentionuvI get confused and think they're talking about uvloop until I remember the Astral project, and then reconfirm to myself how much I disapprove of their name choice.I don't think
libuvis really that popular, nor is it that confusing.But I do agree it's not a very good name. "Rye" is a much better name. Probably too late anyway.
UV is a game changer for python.
I hated the tooling until I found it.
uv is good but it needs a little more time in the oven.
For the moment I would definitely recommend poetry if you are not a library developer. Poetry's biggest sin is it's atrocious performance but it has most of the features you need to work with Python apps today.
Why do you say it needs more time in the oven? I've had zero issues with it as a drop-in replacement for Pip in a large commercial project, which is an extremely impressive achievement. (And it was 10x faster.)
I tried Poetry once and it failed to resolve dependencies on the first thing I tried it on. If anything Poetry needs more time in the oven. It also wasn't 10x faster.