alt Hacker Newsuv has a lot of great features, but the dependency resolution is why I'm a fanboy. It can resolve trees that pip gives up on, and it does it 20x faster than poetry (100x faster than pip) - saves me half an hour on some big projects. All the python resolution and environment management and stuff is just gravy.
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scorpioxy • today at 1:13 AM
I've only seen pip give up twice and both times were due to bugs that were actively being worked on and the project dependencies were quite old. Perhaps that's why I am less impressed. Don't get me wrong, working faster without any downside is great. But I don't change dependencies all that often for it to matter if it does it in 5 seconds or 30.
Yeah, this is when it really matters that they wrote it in a CPU-performant language. There have been times I pointed uv at a random pip-managed GitHub project to rescue it because the author forgot to specify some versions and entire deps in requirements.txt. It even took uv a bit of chugging to find an overlap. Also wow, those packages had a lot of pointless breaking changes.