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Fun with uv and PEP 723

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618 points deepakjois | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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AstroJetson ◴[24 Jun 25 21:22 UTC] No.44371204[source]▶
> uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

Is there a version of uv written in Python? It's weird (to me) to have an entire ecosystem for a language and a highly recommended tool to make your system work is written in another language.

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1. pjc50 ◴[25 Jun 25 09:21 UTC] No.44375227[source]▶
uv wins precisely because it isn't written in python. As various people have pointed out, it can complete its run before competing python implementations have finished handling their imports.

Besides, the most important tool for making python work, the python executable itself, is written in C. People occasionally forget it's not a self-hosting language.