If you've worked on a Python project for more than a year, you know the drill: pip to install packages, virtualenv or venv to isolate environments, pyenv to manage Python versions, and pip-tools to generate a lockfile. Four separate tools, four config formats, and four different points of failure in CI. uv, built by Astral (the team behind ruff), collapses all of that into a single Rust binary. It's not a modest speed bump either, we're talking 10 to 100x faster than pip on cold installs and ...