I use golang, rust and c++ here and there, but majority of my time is spent working in Python projects. I'm not alien to the concept of speed and performance, especially the tooling around them.
While I like the idea of pip or uv to be insanely fast, I still don't see it revolutionize my development experience.
Installing and uninstalling package is not something I do every 1 to 10 minutes. It doesn't save me any much time. Also, activating a venv is once a session in terminal and sometime a week goes by without ever activating a venv, because the IDE does that automatically on whatever I do.
That's why, personally for me it really doesn't change much.
Where I like things being fast in my development time is pre-commit and linting, where ruff shines. Which that I also don't use, even though I work on a small-medium 600k LoC project, I only pass the changed files to isort, flake8 and black and it's all done in less than 5 seconds.
To me, the only advantage of uv is being fast, which is something I haven't been bothered with so far, where 99% of things happen in less than 1 or max couple of seconds.
Ever had customers deploy your project on 4 different debian versions without docker? Probably not, because there are problems lurking you didn't even know could exist. And 99% of them are gone with uv.
You don't have to believe the parts you made up. The comment you're replying to didn't actually state that a single customer was deploying to four different Debian versions. As written, the comment only requires you to believe that four Debian versions were in use collectively across the customer base.
Granted, but that is relevant to the point I made in which way?
In reality you will have people running different OS versions. Maybe not within one org, but across users? For sure. If you are not using containers for one reason or another uv has shown to be a very good, reliable and easy to use way of dealing with the issues like these.
Additionally it has some other benefits when it comes to dev dependecies etc. Not that you couldn't somehow manage without it, it just makes certain things so much less pain as they were.
The speed is nice. It’s not the only advantage, though. It’s so pleasant being able to `uv run [git-repo]` and having it work. The same design that makes it so fast makes it delightfully good at doing other complicated things.
While I like the idea of pip or uv to be insanely fast, I still don't see it revolutionize my development experience.
Installing and uninstalling package is not something I do every 1 to 10 minutes. It doesn't save me any much time. Also, activating a venv is once a session in terminal and sometime a week goes by without ever activating a venv, because the IDE does that automatically on whatever I do.
That's why, personally for me it really doesn't change much.
Where I like things being fast in my development time is pre-commit and linting, where ruff shines. Which that I also don't use, even though I work on a small-medium 600k LoC project, I only pass the changed files to isort, flake8 and black and it's all done in less than 5 seconds.
To me, the only advantage of uv is being fast, which is something I haven't been bothered with so far, where 99% of things happen in less than 1 or max couple of seconds.