> All these comments look like advertisement. "uv is better than python!!", "8/10 programmers recommend uv", "I was a terrible programmer before but uv changed my life!!", "uv is fast!!!"
Have you tried uv?
> All these comments look like advertisement. "uv is better than python!!", "8/10 programmers recommend uv", "I was a terrible programmer before but uv changed my life!!", "uv is fast!!!"
Have you tried uv?
Why would I? Does it offer something that standard python tools doesn't? Why uv over, lets say, conda?
FWIW I asked the same question last time a uv thread was posted (two weeks ago) - got some legit answers, none that swayed me personally but I can see why people use it. Also lots of inexplicable love for it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45574550
I agree that the speed improvements are inexplicable, as in I can't convince you in writing. "uv is fast!!!" doesn't do it justice. You kinda just have to experience it for yourself.
If you haven't spent 5 minutes trying it out, you don't know what you're missing.
If you're worried about getting addicted like everyone else, I could see that as a valid reason to never try it in the first place.
> Does it offer something that standard python tools doesn't?
Other than speed and consolidation, pip, pipx, hatch, virtualenv, and pyenv together roughly do the job (though pyenv itself isn’t a standard python tool.)
> Why uv over, lets say, conda?
Support for Python standard packaging specifications and consequently also easier integration with other tools that leverage them, whether standard or third party.
Maybe open hundreds of threads praising uv to find what was answered thousand of times?