@hynek @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies Even in the best case, Rust is more expensive and difficult to maintain, not to mention "non-native" to the average customer here (who presumably knows enough Python to dip into helping out with maintenance if Ofek or Frost wanders off.
@hynek @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies And the difficulty with VC money here is that it can burn out *all* the other projects in the ecosystem simultaneously, creating a risk of monoculture, where previously, I think we can say that "monoculture" was the *least* of Python's packaging concerns.
@hynek @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies (Also, referring to it as "pearl-clutching" is both insulting and inaccurate. Pearl-clutching is an exaggerated show of high emotion, whereas what is being expressed here is a fairly nuanced ambivalence towards what we all acknowledge is otherwise a good thing)
@glyph @hynek @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies Yeah, this is my perspective as well. I don't mind that uv exists, it's great that it does; what I do mind is the implication that all #Python developers should dump pip, pip-tools, pipenv, pyenv, virtualenv, hatch, poetry, etc. and use uv instead.
@glyph @hynek @sethmlarson @freakboy3742 @jacob @sgillies
Shouldn't we just acknowledge that Perl is dead? And so, then, must be perl-clutching.