Who isn’t using Ruff for its blazing speed? Who hasn’t yet tried uv to make project management seamless and fast?
What goes into building these tools, managing their increasing popularity + community of adopters?
Hear from the creator himself, Charlie Marsh, as he shares insights on designing fast, ergonomic Python tooling that elevates the developer experience. 😍 📈
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:45 Charlie's background
03:32 2 reasons to work on new Python tooling
07:10 Inspiration from Rust / Cargo
11:00 Thinking about software design (uv)
15:00 uv's two use cases (low vs high level)
17:15 Balancing feedback vs roadmap while being nice
23:00 How shipping evolved
24:28 Managing open source + quality / testing tooling
32:31 Pybites coaching ad segment
32:57 Astral's vision / what's coming (type checking 🎉)
37:50 Support Conda? uv can be embedded
39:53 What helped you to learn Rust (build!)
45:25 Book tip, CTA and how to reach out
49:12 Wrap / outro
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