this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
120 points (99.2% liked)
Programmer Humor
43189 readers
4 users here now
Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)
Rules:
- Posts must be relevant to programming, programmers, or computer science.
- No NSFW content.
- Jokes must be in good taste. No hate speech, bigotry, etc.
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Think about what they get by controlling a popular package manager. Think about what you give them.
You will not feel the consequences directly.
what I do feel is how slow poetry is for resolving dependencies
Yeah I used to be a huge advocate for Poetry and convinced my previous company to switch to it but it's painfully slow when compared to UV so I can't go back
Doesn't uv just use PyPI for its packages (i.e. it's not talking to any servers owned by them)? There's the possibility of hijinks on the client side, of course, but it would be hard to do without anyone noticing and causing a huge stink about it.
I'd say the more worrying aspects of uv is the use of AI in its development even before OpenAI bought them out and what's going to happen to it after OpenAI eventually goes under.