Every single time someone asks "why?" in this thread, the answer is "well cargo does it too". Not sure what to think about that.
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The great thing about uv is not that their choices are best, it's that the choices have been made, the gordian knots cut. There is a good enough standard to build upon. Future python projects will look a lot more like each other, and less time will be wasted on organizational minutiae.