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  • The performance is just a “nice to have”.

    Python package management, especially at scale is infuriating. At work we use python microservices in docker containers and it infuriates me trying to update the one our team is responsible for.

    I always like to rant that python 3rd party package management tools are a mistake. We should’ve gone for an “as simple as possible” setup instead of all this.

    So I’m sceptical of UV on principle since it’s yet another 3rd party package manager but if it can do all of this and not be a nightmare I’ll be ok with it.


  • It looks like it’s 3x faster than the previous cpython wasm compilation. Recall that most of the performance improvements in python have been done in the last ~2 releases.

    My distro is debian based so it’s still on 3.10 which I would guess this new wasm implementation is much closer to in performance.

    Compiling to wasm also means that you can distribute a binary rather than needing people to have python installed.