This. I was researching uv to replace my pipenv+pyenv setup, but after reading up a bit I decided to just give up. Pipenv is just straightforward and “just works”. Aside from being slow, not much is wrong with it. I’m not in the mood to start configuring uv, a tool that should take me 2 minutes and a “uv —-help” to learn.
What doesn’t just work about uv in particular? You basically need three commands - uv add, uv sync, and uv run. Forget about virtual environments, and get back to working. No configuration necessary.
Slow doesn't really begin to do justice, I'd have to wait for >5 minutes for pipenv to finish figuring out our lock file. uv does it in less than a second.
> Pipenv is just straightforward and “just works”
I have worked on numerous projects that started with pipenv and it has never "just works" ever. Either there's some trivial dependency conflict that it can't resolve or it's slow as molasses or something or the other. pipenv has been horrible to use. I started switching projects to pip-tools and now I recommend using uv