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uv isn't a performance improvement on pip but a ground-up rewrite in a completely different language.
Source on the logic being different from pip? Last I checked it's nothing more than a port of pip to rust.
What are the trade-offs?
So .. like ... Why not dump python entirely if you are doing a python to rust port of a core aspect of python tool gain?
So .. like ... Why not dump python entirely if you are doing a python to rust port of a core aspect of python tool gain?
Would the authors not have been better off adding their performance improvements to pip rather than creating their own tool? I remember this being a complaint from Node maintainers when Bun was released: they had multiple open performance-related issues with no one available to work on them.
I’m guessing “rewrite it in Rust” would have been an unpalatable PR for the pip maintainers to merge.
So .. like ... Why not dump python entirely if you are doing a python to rust port of a core aspect of python tool gain?
Why do you ask?
So .. like ... Why not dump python entirely if you are doing a python to rust port of a core aspect of python tool gain?
Every time I hear "new system faster than old system!", my first thought is: what features does the new system not implement, what corner-cases does it ignore? What are the trade-offs?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
uv isn't a performance improvement on pip but a ground-up rewrite in a completely different language.
Source on the logic being different from pip? Last I checked it's nothing more than a port of pip to rust.
> Limitations
> While uv supports a large subset of the pip interface, it does not support the entire feature set. In some cases, those differences are intentional; in others, they're a result of uv's early stage of development.
> For details, see our pip compatibility guide[1]
> Like pip-compile, uv generates a platform-specific requirements.txt file (unlike, e.g., poetry and pdm, which generate platform-agnostic poetry.lock and pdm.lock files). As such, uv's requirements.txt files may not be portable across platforms and Python versions.
[1] - https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/PIP_COMPATIBILITY....
Every time I hear "new system faster than old system!", my first thought is: what features does the new system not implement, what corner-cases does it ignore? What are the trade-offs?