alt Hacker NewsI suspect that my normal workflows might just have evolved to route around the pain that package management can be in python (or any other ecosystem really).
In what situations are uv most useful? Is it once you install machine learning packages and it pulls in more native stuff - ie is it more popular in some circles? Is there a killer feature that I'm missing?
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politelemon • today at 1:19 PM
Imo, uv scripts with the dependencies in the header.
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d...
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dec0dedab0de • today at 1:19 PM
UV is most useful because it is so much faster than everything else. All the other features I could do without.
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If you have hundreds of different Python projects on your machine (as I do) the speed and developer experience improvements of uv make a big difference.
I love being able to cd into any folder and run "uv run pytest" without even having to think about virtual environments or package versions.