Comment by BiteCode_dev
2 months ago
For the latter point, you are blinded by your own competence.
Bootstrapping a clean python env is the single biggest problem for people that are not daily coding in python.
That's half of the community in the python world.
When you write sqla that's not obvious, because you know a lot. But for the average user, uv was a savior.
I wrote a pretty long article on that here:
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use
We also discuss it with brett cannon there:
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/brett-cannon-on-python-humans-and
But the most convincing argument is to teach python to kids, accountants, mathematicians, java coders and sysadmin.
After 20 years of doing that, I saw the same problems again and again.
And then uv arrived. And they disapeared for those people.
> And then uv arrived. And they disapeared for those people.
I'm not arguing against tools that make things as easy as possible for non programmers, I'm arguing against gigantic forks in the Python installation ecosystem. Forks like these are harmful to the tooling, I'm already suffering quite a bit due to the flake8/ruff forking where ruff made a much better linter engine but didnt feel like implementing plugins, so everyone is stuck on what I feel is a mediocre set of linting tools. Just overall I don't like Astral's style and I think a for-profit startup forking out huge chunks of the Python ecosystem is going to be a bad thing long term.