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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 oruv
at 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 popularuvloop
module). Every time I see someone mentionuv
I 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
libuv
is 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.