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216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust

Mar 11, 2024

Explore the use of Rust to create faster Python tooling with Ruff and uv. Learn about Astral's venture-backed company and the future of UV tool. Discover how UV can enhance packaging, virtual environments, and GitHub issue management.

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Charlie Marsh

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Quick takeaways

UV aims to replace pip tools and virtual environments, offering speed enhancements for frequent tool usage.

Ruff is focused on enhancing editor integrations by rewriting the language server in Rust to provide users with advanced analysis functionalities and seamless coding experiences.

Deep dives

Introduction and Background of UV and Rough

The podcast introduces Charlie Marsh and focuses on UV, a tool designed to replace pip tools and virtual environments, offering speed enhancements for frequent tool usage. UV aims to improve day-to-day workflow speed and productivity. Marsh discusses the origins of UV and rough, where rough was initially created to test faster Python tooling using Rust and enhance Python tool chain efficiency. The development of rough quickly gained momentum with early projects like gino and fast API.

Introduction

2min

Creating Faster Python Tooling with 'Rough'

4min

Comparison and Features of Ruff vs. Flake8 in Python Tooling

3min

Building Astral: Python Tooling and Business Models

22min

Managing GitHub Contributions and Issue Resolution Post-Release

2min

Improving Python Virtual Environments and Package Management

13min

Future Plans for UV and ROUGH Tooling

4min

Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.

Ruff can take the place of Flake8, isort, and Black, and so much more.
uv can take the place of pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv
Astral is Charlie's venture backed company, and what they have with `ruff` and `uv` is just the start.

Since uv is the newest tool, there's quite a bit of the discussion diving into uv.

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Test & Code

216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Introduction and Background of UV and Rough

UV's Unique Functionality and Speed Improvements

UV's Future Roadmap and Python Version Management

Upcoming Improvements in Rough and Editor Integrations

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts