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Comment by zaphirplane

3 hours ago

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.