Fun with uv and PEP 723

> Before this I used to prefer Go for one-off scripts because it was easy to create a self-contained binary executable.

I still do because:

- Go gives me a single binary

- Dependencies are statically linked

- I don’t need any third-party libs in most scenarios

- Many of my scripts make network calls, and Go has a better stdlib for HTTP/RPC/Socket work

- Better tooling (built-in formatter, no need for pytest, go vet is handy)

- Easy concurrency. Most of my scripts don’t need it, but when they do, it’s easier since I don’t have to fiddle with colored functions, external libs, or, worse, threads.

That said, uv is a great improvement over the previous status quo. But I don’t write Python scripts for reasons that go beyond just tooling. And since it’s not a standard tool, I worry that more things like this will come along and try to “improve” everything. Already scarred and tired in that area thanks to the JS ecosystem. So I tend to prefer stable, reliable, and boring tools over everything else. Right now, Go does that well enough for my scripting needs.

Good for you. I dont See how this is relevant to this topic.

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I still use both Go and Python. But Python gives me access to a lot more libraries that do useful stuff. For example the YouTube transcript example I wrote about in the article was only possible in Python because afaik Go doesn't have a decent library for transcript extraction.

> Before this I used to prefer Go for one-off scripts because it was easy to create a self-contained binary executable.

Here's how it's relevant :)

Yeah that's a fair point. I still do a ton of Python for work. The language is fine; it's mostly tooling that still feels 30 years old.

I needed to process a 2 GB xml file the other day. While my Python script was chugging away, I had Claude translate it to Go. The vibe-coded Go program then processed the file before my original Python script terminated. That was the first time I ever touched Go, but it certainly won't be the last.

Go is pretty awesome. I’m sure that spending some time with the script would have made it at least 50 times faster than Python.