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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: 1.144s | 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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haiku2077 ◴[23 Jun 25 18:52 UTC] No.44358840[source]▶
Right, wheels are reinvented every few years. Compare tires of today to the ones 20 years ago and the technology and capability is very different, even though they look identical to a casual eye.

My primary vehicle has off-road capable tires that offer as much grip as a road-only tire would have 20-25 years ago, thanks to technology allowing Michelin to reinvent what a dual-purpose tire can be!

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1. nightpool ◴[23 Jun 25 20:16 UTC] No.44359616[source]▶
> Compare tires of today to the ones 20 years ago and the technology and capability is very different, even though they look identical to a casual eye

Can you share more about this? What has changed between tires of 2005 and 2025?

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2. haiku2077 ◴[23 Jun 25 20:44 UTC] No.44359884[source]▶
In short: Better materials and better computational models.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15078050/we-drive-the...

> In the last decade, the spiciest street-legal tires have nearly surpassed the performance of a decade-old racing tire, and computer modeling is a big part of the reason

(written about 8 years ago)