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

  • It’s written in Rust.

    All jokes about the Rust Evangelism Strike Force aside, various parts of the industry are finally starting to think that “If it’s written in Rust, we have less to worry about with respect to that thing, so we won’t torture the devs and force them to sneak it in the side door anyway.”

    It’s a thing that I’ve been seeing at work for the last few years.