Python

Obligatory “there are now 15 competing standards”

For real though, this looks interesting. I am a long time poetry user, I’ve been mostly happy with it but I do think it could stand to be a little faster. I’ll have to try this out sometime.

This is incredible. Truly hats off to the folks at Astral. Can't wait to try all this out and replace all our old bespoke tooling.

uv is now capable of installing and managing Python itself, making it entirely self-bootstrapping:

Looking forward to this. One of the blind spots of poetry was to ignore the issue of managing python versions themselves. I'm happy to see they're covering so many aspects of dependency management and replicability.

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.

Is that a real problem? I've never considered that a python package manager should be or could be faster.

To be fair, I don't use python professionally.