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uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust

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741 points chirau | 5 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.667s | source
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neves ◴[23 Jun 25 18:39 UTC] No.44358711[source]▶
It is a venture capital startup. If I start use uv, what's our protection against the company going rogue?
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1. zffr ◴[23 Jun 25 18:43 UTC] No.44358748[source]▶
Why wouldn't you be able to switch back to using pip ?
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2. nullhole ◴[23 Jun 25 18:52 UTC] No.44358837[source]▶
It seems like that'd work as long as you restrict yourself entirely to the pip interface. Stray outside of that, and you start accumulating a real dependency on uv itself.
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3. kylecordes ◴[23 Jun 25 18:54 UTC] No.44358856[source]▶
If uv disappeared tomorrow, five projects would spring up to make compatible implementations of its functionality.
4. lmm ◴[24 Jun 25 01:31 UTC] No.44362022[source]▶
Because after a few years of using a non-awful tool you lose your tolerance for awfulness?
5. maleldil ◴[24 Jun 25 17:42 UTC] No.44368746[source]▶
It's trivial to switch from uv to other projects like pdm or poetry. uv follows the standard PEPs really closely, so most things are interoperable.