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

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741 points chirau | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.664s | source
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theLiminator ◴[23 Jun 25 17:43 UTC] No.44358222[source]▶
uv and ruff are a great counterexample to all those people who say "never reinvent the wheel". Don't ever do it just for the sake of doing it, but if you have focused goals you can sometimes produce a product that's an order of magnitude better.
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mort96 ◴[23 Jun 25 18:27 UTC] No.44358604[source]▶
Honestly "don't reinvent the wheel" makes absolutely no sense as a saying. We're not still all using wooden discs as wheels, we have invented much better wheels since the neolithic. Why shouldn't we do the same with software?
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1. aalimov_ ◴[23 Jun 25 18:51 UTC] No.44358832[source]▶
I always took this saying as meaning that we don’t re-invent the concept of the wheel. For example the Boring company and Tesla hoping to reinvent the concept of the bus/train.. (iirc your car goes underground on some tracks and you get to bypass traffic and not worry about steering)

A metal wheel is still just a wheel. A faster package manager is still just a package manager.

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2. haiku2077 ◴[23 Jun 25 18:53 UTC] No.44358855[source]▶
That's not how I've ever seen it used in practice. People use it to mean "don't build a replacement for anything functional."