astral-sh/uv

> Are people making user facing apps in rust with uis? We are talking not only about Rust, but also about C and C++. There are lots of C++ UI applications. Rust poses itself as an alternative to C++, so it is definitely intended to be used for UI applications too - it was created to write a browser! At work I am using tools such as uv [1] and ruff [2], which are user-facing (although not GUI), and I definitely appreciate a 16x speedup if possible. [1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv [2] https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff

Have you tried uv [1]? It has removed 90% of the pain of running python projects for me. [1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

…ttle better now). I just can't say I've ever cared about installing dependencies, something you do once, taking 7s longer. Nor do I care how long CI takes, it running in the background is the point. The one use I can give it is for running scripts with inline dependencies. I have found it a noticeable improvement over pipx there. But that's more due to needing to parse dependencies every single launch, if it's something I use regularly I end up just installing them normally instead, and it's faster than either. [1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/main/BENCHMARKS.md

For Python, `uv` [1] delivers a similar experience. Faster dependencies. Better dependency management with `pyproject.toml`. Just use it with `uv run` or `uvx`. [1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

For Python's uv, I think the closest thing to a cooldown is something like: uv lock --exclude-newer $(date --iso -d "24 hours ago") uv is considering a native relative date: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/14992

uv is pretty self-contained; there aren't a lot of ways a weird linux distro could break it it or its installer, aside from not providing any of the three user-owned paths it tries to install uv into (it doesn't try to do anything with elevated privileges or install for anyone other than the current user). Expecting $HOME and your own shell profile to be writable just isn't something that's going to break very often. Looking at the install script or at a release page (eg. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.9.6 ) shows they have pretty broad hardware support in their pre-compiled binaries. The most plausible route to being disappointed by the versatility of this install script is…

…PS, or S3, or your keyboard once you have leaned touch typing, are "boring in a good way". They have no concealed surprises, are well-tested in practice, and do what they say on the tin, every time. New and shiny things can be "boring in the good way", e.g. uv [2]. Old and established things can be full of (nasty) surprises, and, in this regard, the opposite of boring, e.g. C++. [1]: https://boringtechnology.club/#30 [2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv

The only reason I haven't switched is its still barely-there support for air-gapped systems [1]. And lack of non-local venv support [2]. [1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/10203 [2] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/1495