Comment by ldng

That might be how uv got fast but that is not why it got popular.

PyPA has been a mess for a very long time for in-fighting, astroturfing, gatekeeping and so on with pip being the battlefield. The uv team just did one thing that PyPA & co stopped doing a long time ago (if they ever did ...) : actually solving pain point of their user and never saying "it's not possible because [insert bullshit]" or reply "it's OSS, do it yourself" to then reject the work with attitude and baseless argument.

They listened to their user's issues and solved their pain points without denying them. period.