I believe they are saying that by the time you need something like uv, your project already has too many dependencies. Its the unnecessarily large supply chain that's the problem, and uv exists to solve a problem that you should try to avoid in the first place.
I think uv is great, but I somewhat agree. We see this issue with node/npm. We need smaller supply chains/less dependencies overall, not just bandaiding over the poor decisions with better dependency management tooling.
Ah this simplifies what they were saying.
I agree with it that dependency management should be made easier. To be honest, I really like how golang's dependency and how golang's community works around dependencies and how golang has a really great stdlib to work with and how the community really likes to rely on very little depenendencies for the most part as well.
Maybe second to that, Zig is interesting as although I see people using libraries, its on a much lower level compared to rust/node/python.
Sadly, rust suffers from the same dependency issue like node/python.
This line of thought is honestly a bit silly - uv is just a package manager that actually does its job for resolving dependencies. You’re talking about a completely orthogonal problem.