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

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.

The history of Python package management is clear that everyone thinks they can do a better job than the status quo.

uv is purely a performance improvement, it changes nothing about the mechanics of Python environment management or packaging.

The improvements came from lots of work from the entire python build system ecosystem and consensus building.

Disagree in that uv makes switching out the underlying interpreter so straightforward. Becomes trivial to swap from say 3.11 to 3.12. The pybi idea.

Sure, other tools could handle the situation, but being baked into the tooling makes it much easier to bootstrap different configurations.