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

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741 points chirau | 1 comments | 23 Jun 25 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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theLiminator ◴[23 Jun 25 17:43 UTC] No.44358222[source]▶
uv and ruff are a great counterexample to all those people who say "never reinvent the wheel". Don't ever do it just for the sake of doing it, but if you have focused goals you can sometimes produce a product that's an order of magnitude better.
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mort96 ◴[23 Jun 25 18:27 UTC] No.44358604[source]▶
Honestly "don't reinvent the wheel" makes absolutely no sense as a saying. We're not still all using wooden discs as wheels, we have invented much better wheels since the neolithic. Why shouldn't we do the same with software?
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simonw ◴[23 Jun 25 19:04 UTC] No.44358965[source]▶
When asked why he had invented JSON when XML already existed, Douglas Crockford said:

The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.

https://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/12/20/scripting-news-fo...

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idle_zealot ◴[23 Jun 25 20:37 UTC] No.44359814[source]▶
You can get a round one. Or you can make yet another wonky shaped one to add to the collection, as ended up being the case with JSON.
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psunavy03 ◴[23 Jun 25 22:12 UTC] No.44360730[source]▶
Insert the xkcd about 15 competing standards . . .
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1. mort96 ◴[27 Jun 25 13:28 UTC] No.44396654{3}[source]▶
Probably the world's most over-used and misused comic strip. JSON wasn't created as a response to a situation where there were too many data interchange standards.