Sure, but it’s demonstrably better than Poetry, which was the best until uv.

If uv isn’t a standard, it’s because not enough people have tried it. It is obscenely good at its job.

uv is an excellent piece of software regardless of the language used to write it. Really, if you do python, it's worth giving it a try, especially script mode.

Eh, I’m not so sure.

We didn’t see adoption nearly this fast for poetry, pipenv, or conda (or hatch or PDM, but I never saw those as even reaching critical mass in the first place).

Those tools got pretty popular, but it took a long time and most folks found them to have a lot of tradeoffs (miles better than Python’s first party tooling, but still).

I’m not seeing that with “uv”. Other than concerns about Astral’s stewardship model (which could be valid!), I’m not seeing widespread “it works but is hard to use” dissatisfaction with the to the way I do with, say, poetry.

Couple that with uv durably solving the need for pyenv/asdf/mise by removing the pain of local interpreter compilation entirely, and I do think that adds up to uv being fundamentally different in popularity or approach compared to prior tools. Is that “different” the same as “better”? Time will tell.

As to being written in Rust? Shrug. A ton of shops for whom uv has been transformative don’t even know or care what language it’s written in. Being Rust provides, in my opinion, two benefits: a) avoiding chicken-and-egg problems by writing the tool for managing a programming language environment in a different language that is b) not bash.

You forgot to update your HN craze list. Zig is chic, Rust is out.

No, it’s not. Everywhere I see, uv is adopted.