TL;DR: uv is an extremely fast Python package manager, written in Rust.

  • Is that a real problem? I’ve never considered that a python package manager should be or could be faster.

    To be fair, I don’t use python professionally.

    • Yes. For the project I work on pip install takes about 60 seconds and replacing it with uv reduces that to about 7 seconds. That’s a very significant improvement. Much less annoying interactively and in CI we do this multiple times so it saves a significant chunk of time.

    • I think the main focus is around building out the tool chain - I would think being fast is just a side benefit and the main benefit is being written as the same language as what they want to use for the rest of “cargo”