[Quothling]

> Cargo vs pip/Poetry

I know this section is really just a comparrison of pyproject.toml and cargo.toml, but who on earth would use pip instead of UV as a drop-in replacement in 2026? Though calling it a comparrison is a bit of a stretch considering there is no text.

On top of that, I imagine that a lot of Python programmers who actually do use pip would also use requirements.txt and not pyproject.toml

[nickpsecurity]

People learning Python or searching for it will run into endless answers using PIP. Then, lots of advice on how to work around PIP's problems. Then, multiple alternatives they have to consider. I only recently started using UV after going through all that.

Packaging, concurrency, and type errors had me strongly considering switching to Go or Rust recently. These are such long-solved problems in other languages that I question why we should put up with it in Python. Then, I remember it was the ecosytem, including job market and AI performance, that made me use Python.

So, maybe a Python/Rust combo... There's the extensions the OP article mentioned and a Python interpreter written in Rust.

[poulpy123]

Because it's rust for python dev, not rust for python dev who use uv. I would understand your comment if you mentioned poetry, but pip has been the standard for years

[kermatt]

Because Astral is now owned by a profit driven org, and that often becomes problematic.

Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.