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That's pretty much the conclusion: you should try uv first, and there's a small chance it doesn't work for you and you're not willing to fix it, or it's out of your hands.

Examples include legacy projects and companies that don't allow it (but I do question how they'd even enforce this, and how developers can even do their jobs if they can't run binaries at the user level).

Well I can think of a couple:

1. It makes heavy use of caching and occasionally that goes wrong and give confusing errors until you think to uv clean
2. It's an extra step to install uv which you may not want to impose on users, or CI.
3. Astral might die.

But it's sooooo much better than the official tooling (and the competition like Poetry) that the conclusion is still the same: you should definitely use it.

Real Python is great in general! They explain stuff well and correctly. I don't know if it's good for learning start to finish, but at least if there's a specific topic you need to deep diver deeper into. It's my go tho when exploring a new python related topic.

I learned python from codecademy back in the day, are they still around? I remember their examples/course being very interactive and completely free

The article quite clearly mentions competition:

Because I'm a freelancer dev, and also a trainer, I get to navigate those waters and I've seen all other tools fail spectacularly. pyenv, poetry, pipenv, pdm, pyflow, pipx, anaconda...

As well as discusses anaconda later in relation to CLI and GUI.

The speed is really fantastic, there's nothing else I can say. If you don't see a benefit, the it's fine of course. But going from insanely long resolution times in my previous work place using conda to now resolving stuff in a matter of seconds is incredible. uv is the first tool I have used for Python that just feels right.

I recommend listening to the podcast from Real Python that talks with Charlie, they discuss the commercial aspect https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/

"Do one thing and one thing well"

This is why the Python landscape is such a mess in the first place. The "one thing" should have been project management. Instead, we end up with 20 different tools that have a very limited context, often overlapping or being mutually exclusive to each other in functionality, and it's up to each project to adopt and configure them correctly.

The mass adoption of uv is a clear sign that we're tired of this flawed approach. Leave the Unix philosophy to core utilities of an OS.

The biggest praise i have is, it follows the UNIX philosophy, do one thing and do it well.

That isn't a pro on its own, and it's also a very wooly rule. Uv does one thing and it does it well - Python project management.

the issue comes down to resources required to maintain a super complex thing

They seem to be managing fine. I guess having a company back it is enough. But that is also probably my biggest worry about it - what if Astral goes away (which given their apparent lack of business model I suspect they eventually will)? Hopefully uv is popular enough by that point it won't die.

I DONT GIVE TWO SHIATS IF ITS FASTER

It's literally 10x faster. I'm not sure what kind of person wouldn't care about that.