Posted by NeutralForest 7/3/2025
I dont think there is enough money in package registries to pay for all of the VC investment in astral.
That said, I've checked Anaconda's site, and while it used to be "Anaconda [Python] Commercial Distribution", "On-Prem repositories", "Cloud notebooks and training"... during the last year they've changed their product name to "Anaconda AI Platform", and all it's about "The operating system for AI", "Tools for the Complete AI Lifecycle". Eeeeh, no thanks.
With that said — it’s uv or die for me
Among many things it’s improved, scripting with python finally just works without the pain of some odd env issue.
From what I can tell uv doesn’t (unlike poetry) assist with venvs what so ever.
What is a trivial «poetry run» becomes the same venv-horrors of Python fame when I use uv and «uv run».
Based on that, your comment strikes me as the polar opposite of my experience (which is why I still resort to poetry).
Care to outline how you use v to solve venv-issues, since from what I can tell, uv explicitly doesn’t?
I’m very curious.
Here’s a couple links to discussions about it on HN:
And how does that work on Windows, which to my knowledge doesn’t even support shebangs?
My good uv experience. I tried installing tensor/cuda Python code recently. Plain pip just failed. uv pip actually returned WHY it failed.
It definitely felt like magic.
They do if you instruct them to.
Not to mention the relatability aspect ("he's a plain dude, making mistakes and all, not some over-educated schmuck")
its main benefit is that it is well maintained and does everything you used to need a string of tools for before.
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time uv
real 0m0.005s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
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time npm
real 0m0.082s
user 0m0.068s
sys 0m0.020s
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time pip
real 0m0.320s
user 0m0.179s
sys 0m0.031s
Before uv I was doing everything in a devcontainer on my Mac since that was easiest, but uv is super fast that I skip that unless I have some native libraries that I need for Linux.