[nchmy]

How many people are digging into and contributing to any python tooling? How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust? Plenty of people (yet also a significant minority overall) write each of them.

> Is there anything being done in uv that couldn't be done in Python?

Speed, at the very least.

You could just ignore uv and use whatever you want...

[ericfrederich]

> How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust

In an ecosystem where the primary implementation of the language is in C and nearly all native extensions are written in C do you really not know the answer to that?

[gamegod]

> How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust

They've been teaching C in universities for like 40 years to every Computer Science and Engineering student. The number of professionally trained developers who know C compared to Rust is not even close. (And a lot of us are writing Python because it's easy and productive, not because we don't know other languages.)

[nchmy]

If c + Python is so wonderful and so ubiquitous, why hasn't someone already created uv in C?

Ps the government and others have all recommended moving from C/C++ to Rust... It's irrelevant whether or not that's well-founded - it simply is.

And plenty of other cli tools have been successfully and popularly ported to Rust.

[noitpmeder]

I think you'll find that C (and C++) are rapidly disappearing from computer science curriculums. Maybe you'll encounter one or both in Operating Systems, or an elective, but you'll be hard pressed to find recent graduates actually looking for work in those languages.