I tried really hard to do things the right way before uv, but it was just a major PITA. Poetry in particular looked really exciting when I first discovered it, but I eventually just got bogged down with the speed and its inability to resolve dependencies even for recent versions of pretty mainstream packages. It didn't 'just work' once you got beyond toy projects.
I admit I hadn't really realised astral was a private company before though. What is their roadmap for monetising all this work?
Re:Bringing uv and ty together
by zelphirkalt on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:32PM
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Hm, that's strange. I have used Pipenv and Poetry years ago, to reproducibly build data science environments that people used to learn about data science and data analysis. I don't think you can call that "toy projects". I guess you just had bad luck with some specific dependencies. What I do remember though is, that Poetry had far fewer problems than Pipenv had. Pipenv was still a fight, though I won every time one way or another.
Yea, it's interesting. My comment is negative in votes, but I went back to it to see. Everything I said is factual, so I don't know. People are endlessly impressed by uv's whizbang speed, it seems. In reality, it's _yet another tool_ trying to reinvent the Python ecosystem.
I am of the same opinion, that uv didn't actually change all that much, if you have a sane project setup. I don't do anything with it, that I didn't do before with Poetry and before that with Pipenv. What I need is a way of installing dependencies, checked against a lock file, reliably. Poetry does that. If uv disappeared today, I would go back to Poetry and wouldn't miss all that much.
But there are the people who want to write one-off scripts with loosely defined dependencies inlined into the scripts. I don't do that. I would just copy my Makefile and pyproject.toml file from another project and adjust it and then run the script just as well with locked dependencies. Why do anything less. If I want to be really sloppy, I can just pip install.