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

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.

For me, the big key was: uv is so much easier to explain and especially use - especially for people who sometimes script something in python and don't do this daily.

pip + config file + venv requires you to remember ~2 steps to get the right venv - create one and install stuff into it, and for each test run, script execution and such, you need to remember a weird shebang-format, or to activate the venv. And the error messages don't help. I don't think they could help, as this setup is not standardized or blessed. You just have to beat a connection of "Import Errors" to venvs into your brain.

It's workable, but teaching this to people unfamiliar with it has reminded me how.. squirrely the whole tooling can be, for a better word.

Now, team members need to remember "uv run", "uv add" and "uv sync". It makes the whole thing so much easier and less intimidating to them.