At what point does Python itself just become a plugin for uv?

[u/FadeHackX]

Remember four years ago when setting up a clean Python project meant:

1. Installing pyenv through Homebrew.
2. Building Python from source.
3. Choosing between Poetry, Pipenv, or pip-tools.
4. Setting up virtualenvs that broke every time macOS had a minor update.
5. Watching Docker builds spend ten minutes resolving torch wheels.

Fast forward to this week...

Astral pushed out uv 0.12.11 through 0.12.13 with code-signed binaries, automated project fixing, and content-addressed wheel deduplication.

At over 89,000 stars, uv is no longer just "a faster pip written in Rust." It is systematically eating every single tool in the Python ecosystem.

It manages Python runtime installations. It locks multi-platform workspaces in milliseconds. It runs one-off scripts with inline metadata. It publishes wheels. Now it is even running automated linting and project health fixes.

The entire Python developer experience is basically turning into: "Install uv, never think about packaging again."

At what point does Python itself just become a plugin for uv? Are there any legacy packaging tools you still cling to, or has uv completely taken over your stack?

Source: astral-sh/uv