December 27, 2024

"uv: Towards a unified vision for Python tooling"

This is a great post by Prashanth Rao on the unified vision that uv brings for Python package and project management. As he shares, the tools in this space have been improving over the last 15 years, but uv is a step-change for usability.

The most remarkable aspect of uv is the list of steps he shares that (might) happen when you call uv run hello.py:

1. Installs Python if it’s not already installed
2. Creates and activates the virtual environment
3. Installs the dependencies
4. Runs the code

And all of this happens with blazing speed.

Not only will this make Python developers happier, it solves many of the pain points that are often a barrier to new developers. I’m here for it!