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Hmpf. I am using uv now, but I have been doing fine before using poetry. For me it is not a huge revolution, as I always value reproducibility, which means lock file and checksums, and that, I was able to have before using poetry. Yes, yes, ... uv is faster. I grant them that. And yes, it's pleasant, when it runs so quickly. But I am not changing dependencies that often, that this really impacts my productivity. A venv is created, it stays. Until at some point I update pyproject.toml and the lock file.

Since I am mostly avoiding non-reproducible use-cases, like for example stating dependencies inside the python scripts themselves, without checksums, only with versions, and stuff like that, I am not really benefiting that much. I guess, I am just not writing enough throwaway code, to benefit from those use-cases.

Some people here act, like uv is the first tool ever to install dependencies like npm and cargo and so on. Well, I guess they didn't use poetry before, which did just that.



poetry was incredibly slow and flaky in my experience.


I've used it in various work projects/services, and in my free time in various projects. Never had anything "flaky" about it happening. Care to elaborate what you mean by that?




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