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Uv: Python packaging in Rust

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This actually sounds really promising!
They are teaming up with an existing python package manger written in rust.
These are the people who make/made ruff, probably the most useful and fast python linter.
you basically get pip from a single binary.
they plan to have cargo/poetry like functionality in the future.
Edit: here is a blog post from the creator of rye talking about rye and UV: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/2/15/rye-grows-with-uv/
Is pip the real bottle neck in software development? How many dependencies are you managing that require this speed?
- The longest running tool in our toolchain is pytest, followed somewhat closely by poetry. I work on a project with several teams, so I end up needing to reinstall deps pretty frequently.
  It's not something I'm actively looking for, but I wouldn't say no to some improvements. But I need the additional features of poetry, so I probably won't bother until it gets a bit more sophisticated.
  
  The slowness of poetry is mostly due to network bottlenecks. While a Rust based tool, might be faster, it won't be a dramatic improvement, unlike the one we have seen with Ruff.

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