Fun with uv and PEP 723

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.

I simply do not write shell scripts that use or reference binaries/libraries that are no pre-installed on the target OS (which is the correct target, writing shell scripts for portability is silly).

There is no package manager that is going to make a shell script I write for macOS work on Linux if that script uses commands that only exist on macOS.