Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
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Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#2Idk, for me ruff was more of a game changer. No more explaining why we need both flake8 and pylint (and isort), no more flake8 plugins... Just one command that does it all.
UV is great but I use it as a more convenient pip+venv. Maybe I'm not using it to it's full potential.
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#3A very accessible and gentle introduction for the scientific set who may still be largely stuck on Conda. I liked it!
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#4Another Python package manager? How many are there now?
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#5Venv seems pretty straightforward once you’ve learned the one activate command.
I don’t really get that uv solves all these problems ve never encountered. Just make a venv and use it seems to work fine.
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#6As someone who generally prefers not to use python in a production context (I think it's excellent for one-off scripts or cron jobs that require more features then what bash provides), I agree with this sentiment. I recently wrote some python (using uv) and found it to be pleasant and well-integrated with a variety of LSPs.
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#7Idk, for me ruff was more of a game changer. No more explaining why we need both flake8 and pylint (and isort), no more flake8 plugins... Just one command that does it all. UV is great but I use it as a more convenient pip+venv. Maybe I'm not using it to it's full potential.
> Maybe I'm not using it to it's full potential.
You aren't, but that's fine. Everyone has their own idea about how tooling should work and come together, and I happen to be in your camp (from what I can tell). I actively don't want an all-in-one tool to do "project management".
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#8Venv seems pretty straightforward once you’ve learned the one activate command. I don’t really get that uv solves all these problems ve never encountered. Just make a venv and use it seems to work fine.
Yeah I've never remotely had problems with venv and pip.
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#9Venv seems pretty straightforward once you’ve learned the one activate command. I don’t really get that uv solves all these problems ve never encountered. Just make a venv and use it seems to work fine.
There have been actually many cases in my experience where venv simply worked but uv failed to install dependencies. uv is really fast but usually you need to install dependencies just once.
Re: Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
#10The best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem would be something that unites pip and conda. Conda is not going anywhere given how many packages depend on non-python binaries, especially in enterprise settings.