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Fun with uv and PEP 723

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619 points deepakjois | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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ACAVJW4H ◴[24 Jun 25 20:14 UTC] No.44370555[source]▶
finally feels like Python scripts can Just Work™ without a virtualenv scavenger hunt.

Now if only someone could do the same for shell scripts. Packaging, dependency management, and reproducibility in shell land are still stuck in the Stone Ages. Right now it’s still curl | bash and hope for the best, or a README with 12 manual steps and three missing dependencies.

Sure, there’s Nix... if you’ve already transcended time, space, and the Nix manual. Docker? Great, if downloading a Linux distro to run sed sounds reasonable.

There’s got to be a middle ground simple, declarative, and built for humans.

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1. password4321 ◴[24 Jun 25 21:44 UTC] No.44371402[source]▶
I'm unable to resist responding that clearly the solution is to run Nix in Docker as your shell since packaging, dependency management, and reproducibility will be at theoretical maximum.