I've been using juv on and off for for ~6 months. From what I can tell of juvio, it is a different model for using uv with jupyter notebooks.

I'm not sure which model fits best, I'll have to see how your juvio handles kernels in jupyter. Does the kernel name change, is it all the default kernel, and what changes when an install happens?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by cleaner git diffs, but hopefully that will become clear with experimentation.

For my particular method of working, I've mostly switched to having each small project (roughly a JIRA ticket) be a separate uv-managed project in a git repo, and I create a kernel for each of the uv projects. This allows me to examine multiple different tickets and kernels without having to launch multiple jupyter labs.

The whole kernel<->venv mapping is another layer of massive complexity on top of the current huge amount of complexity in Python packaging. uv makes it fast , but it does not provide the "correct" or even single route to managing venvs.