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Do. I was sceptical at first - exactly because of the points you make: I mostly do ML, so for getting PyTorch and Cuda etc. to play nice conda was basically my go-to.

We use poetry at work, but getting it to play nice with PyTorch is always a bit of an art. I tried to get into Pixi, but have been a little annoyed as it seems to have inherited conda's issues when mixing conda and PyPi.

uv so far has been relatively smooth sailing, and they even have an entire section on using it with PyTorch: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/integration/pytorch/