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ericfrederich06/24/20253 repliesview on HN

Correct. There better be a damn good reason to add another language to the ecosystem other than it's that particular developer's new favorite language.

Is there anything being done in uv that couldn't be done in Python?


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nchmy06/24/2025

How many people are digging into and contributing to any python tooling? How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust? Plenty of people (yet also a significant minority overall) write each of them.

> Is there anything being done in uv that couldn't be done in Python?

Speed, at the very least.

You could just ignore uv and use whatever you want...

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hobofan06/24/2025

To quote Movie Mark Zuckerberg from The Social Network:

> If Python developers were the inventors of uv - they'd have invented uv

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nyzs06/24/2025

speed

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