uv with Charlie Marsh - Rust - Rust in Production

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Up until a few years ago, Python tooling was a nightmare: basic tasks like installing packages or managing Python versions was a pain. The tools were brittle and did not work well together. Then, suddenly, we saw a renaissance of new ideas in the Python ecosystem. It started with Poetry and pipx and continued with tooling written in Rust like rye , which later got incorporated into Astral . Astral in particular contributed a very important piece to the puzzle: uv - an extremely fast Python package and project manager that supersedes all previous attempts; For example, it is 10x-100x faster than pip. In this episode I talk to Charlie Marsh, the Founder and CEO of Astral. We talk about Astral's mission and how Rust plays an important role in it. About Astral Astral is a company that builds tools for Python developers. What sounds simple is actually a very complex problem: Python's ecosystem is huge, but fragmented and often incompatible. Astral’s mission is to make the Python ecosystem more productive by building high-performance developer tools, starting with Ruff.

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