[blactuary]

I use it because I do not need to create packages, and I often do a lot of interactive coding within a conda environment, not just running full Python scripts. At any given time I have a primary conda env I'm using with my set of daily use packages, eventually creating a new one for testing when there are major version upgrades to Python or a package I use frequently.

When I read the uv docs and see other people's examples, I have a hard time understanding how it works for my workflow. It seems I could continue using conda for environment management and only use uv for package installation and it would be much faster, but that also feels a little shaky and potential for error combining the two tools, and since mamba became the default solver conda is pretty fast, even when building a new env from scratch.

It feels like conda and it's ability to have multiple Python versions, with env management built in, gives me more than uv, just without the package installation speed. But I am certainly open to someone explaining uv to me in a way to disprove that