Re:Uv overtakes pip in CI (for Wagtail users)
by zbentley on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:03PM
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> I have a feeling this is some kind of Rust fan thing and that’s where the push comes from, to try and insinuate it into more people’s workflows.
When I first started using uv, I did not know what language it was written in; it was a good tool which worked far better than its predecessors (and I used pdm/pipenv/pyenv/etc. pretty heavily and in non-basic ways). I still don’t particularly care if it’s written in Rust or Brainfuck, it works well. Rust is just a way to get to “don’t bootstrap Python environments in Python or shell”.
> I’ve tried uv a couple places where it’s been forced on me, and it didn’t work for whatever reason.
I’m curious what issues you encountered. Were these bugs/failures of uv, issues using it in a specific environment, or workflow patterns that it didn’t support? Or something else entirely?
When I first started using uv, I did not know what language it was written in; it was a good tool which worked far better than its predecessors (and I used pdm/pipenv/pyenv/etc. pretty heavily and in non-basic ways). I still don’t particularly care if it’s written in Rust or Brainfuck, it works well. Rust is just a way to get to “don’t bootstrap Python environments in Python or shell”.
> I’ve tried uv a couple places where it’s been forced on me, and it didn’t work for whatever reason.
I’m curious what issues you encountered. Were these bugs/failures of uv, issues using it in a specific environment, or workflow patterns that it didn’t support? Or something else entirely?