Announcing uv: an extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust.
uv is designed as a drop-in alternative to pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv.
With a warm cache, uv installs are near-instant. Here, it's > 75x faster than pip and pip-tools.
ALT Benchmarking uv against other Python packaging tools.
See: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/blob/0780afff95b72c66d9cc8cf955acae2e4857acd1/BENCHMARKS.md