uv with Charlie Marsh

Up until a few years ago, Python tooling was a nightmare: basic tasks like installing packages or managing Python versions was a pain. The tools were brittle and did not work well together. Then, suddenly, we saw a renaissance of new ideas in the Python ecosystem. It started with Poetry and pipx and continued with tooling written in Rust like rye, which later got incorporated into Astral.Astral in particular contributed a very important piece to the puzzle: uv -- an extremely fast Python package and project manager that supersedes all previous attempts; For example, it is 10x-100x faster than pip. In this episode I talk to Charlie Marsh, the Founder and CEO of Astral. We talk about Astral's mission and how Rust plays an important role in it. About Astral Astral is a company that builds tools for Python developers. What sounds simple is actually a very complex problem: Python's ecosystem is huge, but fragmented and often incompatible. Astral’s mission is to make the Python ecosystem more productive by building high-performance developer tools, starting with Ruff. In their words: "Fast, unified, futuristic." About Charlie Marsh Charlie is a long-time open source developer and entrepreneur. He has an impressive CV, graduating with highest honors from Princeton University. After that, he worked at Khan Academy and others before eventually founding Astral in '22. Charlie is an engaging speaker and a great communicator. Proudly Supported by CodeCrafters CodeCrafters helps you become proficient in Rust by building real-world, production-grade projects. Learn hands-on by creating your own shell, HTTP server, Redis, Kafka, Git, SQLite, or DNS service from scratch. Start for free today and enjoy 40% off any paid plan by using this link.  Links From The Episode ruff - Python static linter and formatter written in Rustuv - Python package and project manager written in Rustrustfmt - Rust code formatterclippy - Linter for Rust codeThe Rust Programming Language: Cargo Workspaces - The Rust Book's chapter on workspacespip - Package Installer for Pythonpip documentation: Requirements File Format - A description of the format of requirements.txt, including a list of embedded CLI optionsuv's CI - Build scripts for many different platformsjemalloc - Alternative memory allocatorzlib-ng - Next Generation zlib implementation in Creqwest - An easy and powerful Rust HTTP Clientzlib-rs - Pure Rust implementation of zlibXCode Instruments - Native macOS performance profilerCodSpeed - Continuous benchmarking in CIhyperfine - "macro benchmarking" tool, coincidentally written in Rustsamply - Sampling based profiler written in Rustcargo flamegraph - Cargo profiling plugintokio - Asynchronous runtime for Rustcurl-rust - Network API used in cargotar-rs - Sync tar crateasync-tar - Async tar crate based on the async_std runtimetokio-tar - Async tar crate based on tokioastral-tokio-tar - Async tar crate based on tokio, maintained by AstralRustPython - Python interpreter written in Rustlalrpop - The parser generator used by RustPythonCharlie's EuroRust 2024 Talk - Mentions the version number parser at 18:45ripgrep - Andrew Gallant's idiomatic Rust project, which also happens to be a very fast CLI file search tool Official Links AstralCharlie's WebsiteCharlie on GitHub