I had worked out that math for “like pip but actually works” but few people were conscious that pip didn’t quite work reliably for large and complex projects — I didn’t think it was possible to sell it.
Uv won hearts and minds because it was uncompromisingly fast: people did not really care that it had a correct resolving algorithim or that is was really reliable because it is not written in Python and thus can’t trash it’s own dependencies (maybe a solvable problem in that the build tool can have its own virtualenv but isn’t it nice to for your package manager to be a binary that can’t get dependencies screwed up no matter how hard the users try?)
I had worked out that math for “like pip but actually works” but few people were conscious that pip didn’t quite work reliably for large and complex projects — I didn’t think it was possible to sell it.
Uv won hearts and minds because it was uncompromisingly fast: people did not really care that it had a correct resolving algorithim or that is was really reliable because it is not written in Python and thus can’t trash it’s own dependencies (maybe a solvable problem in that the build tool can have its own virtualenv but isn’t it nice to for your package manager to be a binary that can’t get dependencies screwed up no matter how hard the users try?)