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

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741 points chirau | 3 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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acheong08 ◴[23 Jun 25 18:56 UTC] No.44358882[source]▶
Just a few months back I said I would never use uv. I was already used to venv and pip. No need for another tool I thought.

I now use uv for everything Python. The reason for the switch was a shared server where I did not have root and there were all sorts of broken packages/drivers and I needed pytorch. Nothing was working and pip was taking ages. Each user had 10GB of storage allocated and pip's cache was taking up a ton of space & not letting me change the location properly. Switched to uv and everything just worked

If you're still holding out, really just spend 5 minutes trying it out, you won't regret it.

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tomjakubowski ◴[23 Jun 25 21:21 UTC] No.44360262[source]▶
The absolute killer feature for me of uv is that it's still compatible with all of my old venv-based workflows. Just run `uv venv`.
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1. level09 ◴[24 Jun 25 13:26 UTC] No.44366025[source]▶
Unfortunately uWSGI (one of the most important libraries) is fundamentally incompatible with uv. had to roll back all my apps that use custom uWSGI for that reason.
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2. iFreilicht ◴[24 Jun 25 16:21 UTC] No.44367841[source]▶
Could you explain how? Does it do something funky in the venv that uwsgi doesn't understand?
3. tadaima ◴[28 Jun 25 08:18 UTC] No.44403074[source]▶
I am using uwsgi with uv. This is not to say the problems you are facing are not real, but it cannot be a 'fundamental incompatibility' if it is working in my case. Here is an example of a CLI invocation I am using for quick testing:

-- uv run uwsgi --socket 0.0.0.0:8080 --protocol=http -w foo.app:server --processes 2 --threads 2 --stats 0.0.0.0:9191 --