Maybe you could. I would stare longingly into the void, wondering if I can ever work another python project after having experienced uv, ruff, and ty.

Such an outcome would make me wonder regarding the wisdom of "It is better to have love and lost than to have never loved at all."

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signal11 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was using poetry pretty happily before uv came along. I’d probably go back.

Note that uv is fast because — yes, Rust, but also because it doesn’t have to handle a lot of legacy that pip does[1], and some smart language independent design choices.

If uv became unavailable, it’d suck but the world would move on.

[1] https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/26/how-uv-got-so-fast.html

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theLiminator 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Maybe I could give up uv, but giving up ruff would suck.

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crdrost 4 hours ago | parent [-]

This is just the weirdest thread.

Like, the whole point of open source is that this thread is not a thing. The whole point is "if this software is taken on by a malevolent dictator for life, we'll just fork it and keep going with our own thing." Or like if I'm evaluating whether to open-source stuff at a startup, the question is "if this startup fails to get funding and we have to close up shop, do I want the team to still have access to these tools at my next gig?" -- there are other reasons it might be in the company's interests, like getting free feature development or hiring better devs, but that's the main reason it'd be in the employees' best interests to want to contribute to an open-source legacy rather than keep everything proprietary.

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asa400 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The leadership and product direction work are at least as hard as the code work. Astral/uv has absolutely proven this, otherwise Python wouldn't be a boneyard for build tools.

Projects - including forks - fail all the time because the leadership/product direction on a project goes missing despite the tech still being viable, which is why people are concerned about these people being locked up inside OpenAI. Successfully forking is much easier said than done.

	▲	PaulHoule 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had a lot of trouble convincing people that a correct Python package manager was even possible. uv proved it was possible and won people over with speed. I had a sketched out design for a correct package manager in 2018 but when I talked to people about it I couldn't get any interest in it. I think the brilliant idea that uv had that I missed was that it can't be written in Python because if is written in Python developers are going to corrupt its environment sooner or later and you lose your correctness. I think that now that people are used to uv it won't be that hard to develop a competitor and get people to switch.

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giancarlostoro 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is an MIT licensed project, someone will absolutely fork it.

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WesolyKubeczek 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You seem to be underestestimating the laziness of the people, and overestimating their resolve. Angry forks usually don't last, angst doesn't prevent maintenance burnouts.

	▲	giancarlostoro 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You underestimate the value that something like uv and company bring to the ecosystem. Given enough time I could have seen it replacing some core utilities, now that its owned by OpenAI I don't see that happening, unless OpenAI "donates" the project but keeps the devs on a payroll.
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	▲	jitl 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		clicking "fork" in github is pretty easy

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FreakLegion 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ruff is performant but finds about half the issues Pylint does (see https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/970). Ty is quantitatively the worst of the well-known type checkers (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398023). Uv is Astral's only winner.

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deadbabe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe consider something other than python.

	▲	tomrod 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Always choose the best tool for the job. Then import that tool and and check if __name__ == "__main__"
	▲	scuff3d 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Good luck with that. I haven't been successful at convincing anyone to move away from it. I'm so fucking sick of writing Python at work lol