Readit News* One of the lead devs' laptops is named after Hitler's hideout in the forest
* Their 2017 conference had a torchwalk that was a staple of Nazi youth camping (and heavily encouraged by the SS as a nationalism thing)
* Multiple of the core devs are just assholes to people on and offline.
* Most of the suckless philosophy is "It does barely what it needs to and it was built by us, so it's superior to what anyone else has written". A lot of it shows in dwm, dmenu, etc.
They've said the eventual plan is services [1].
[1]: https://astral.sh/blog/announcing-astral-the-company-behind-...
I see that UV is bragging about being 10-100x faster than pip. In my experience the time spent in dependency resolution is dwarfed by the time making web requests and downloading packages.
Also, this isn't something that runs every time you run a Python script. It's ran once during installation of a Python package.
It also doesn't compile .py files to .pyc at install time by default, but that just defers the cost to first import.
IMHO pip-tools was always the far nicer design than poetry, pipenv etc as it was orthogonal to both pip and virtualenv (both of which have been baked into Python for many years now). I would argue Rye is the iterative, standards compliant approach winning out.
Beyond the speedups from Rust, it's nice to have some opinionated takes on where to put virtualenvs (.venv) and how to install different Python versions. It sounds small, but since wheels fixed numpy installs, sane defaults for these and a baked in pip-tools is basically all that was missing. Talking of which, what has been the point of anaconda since binary wheels became a thing?
When you need python + R + some linked or CLI binary in an isolated environment. Also you will use the same tool to manage this environment across multiple OSs (e.g. no OS specific `apt`, `brew`, etc).
If someone smokes a joint near your window, that smell will probably be gone in half an hour. If there is a plant that's just sitting there, it'll be more subtle, but it's not going anywhere.
That said – many people like the smell of Hopfentee (Hop tea), which is pretty similar.
Also growing it is super easy. If you can grow tomatoes then you are already overqualified.
If you want to have a platform that allow to manage Python on all machines, including allowed packages and version, integrated with ldap, with auditing capabilities, they are pretty much the only game in town.
And big companies want that.
[1]: https://www.anaconda.com/blog/announcing-python-in-excel-nex...