Comment by veber-alex
4 hours ago
uv also installs the python version your project needs which is a huge pain in the ass if you use some old Linux distro with outdated python.
4 hours ago
uv also installs the python version your project needs which is a huge pain in the ass if you use some old Linux distro with outdated python.
Like pyenv pioneered for python and nvm for node ? ;)
Years ago
Sure, but it's not a matter of capability but of low friction and sane defaults.
These things matter though a lot of developers don't seem to understand that.
In a uv project I can just git clone, cd, uv sync and I am ready to go. Nothing in the python ecosystem offered that before.
> uv sync
You can also just do "uv run", and it will automatically sync as necessary!
I think that's one of the things that uv does great and often goes unnoticed: It's hard to use wrong for a layman. Forgetting to run the equivalent sync command in most other Python package mangers could have resulted in a myriad of different bugs caused by out of sync packages, leading to hours of wasted debugging.