Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty (opens in new tab)

I’m someone who is not a python developer but has to use python tools and run other people’s python code. I have suffered through learning about anaconda, virtualenv, pip, and more. Uv is the first time there’s a tool that just runs the software without requiring me to become a python ecosystem expert

The key issue uv solved wasn't dependencies, it was environments.

I used to have hundreds of venv folders scattered around my machine. These days I use "uv run" or "uvx" or "uv run --with boto3 python" and uv handles all of the bookkeeping for me.

+1 for Conda. I also have to mention pixi (https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi) which kinda is a uv for the Conda ecosystem. Highly recommend!

Well it is much faster so you can keep iterating installing dependencies until you fix the issue in much less time

What happened to Poetry? did it just not gain enough traction? I was under the impression it was the hot new thing a few years back then uv comes out of nowhere.

I liked Poetry until I went to contribute a bugfix to the codebase and quickly realized it was already an ossified nightmare.

they have bad taste obviously otherwise we'd all be using their project