The Best Thing That's Happened to Python in Decades Is Written in Rust
TL;DR: Python tooling has been a fragmented, slow mess for years. The revolution didn’t come from within the ecosystem: it came from Rust. uv, Ruff and ty — all written in Rust by Astral — have replaced half a dozen tools and are between 10x and 100x faster. Looks like the Cult of Ferris had a point after all. Have you ever tried to explain to someone how to install dependencies in Python? ...