UV: Superfast pip replacement written in Rust

It is (almost) drop-in replacement for pip. We just need to invoke it as uv pip instead of pip

How to install ?

• pipx install uv : This makes it available everywhere.
• Other alternatives are curl (recommended) and brew (on macOS)

It is superfast

I tried installing Django

$ uv pip install Django
Resolved 3 packages in 138ms
Downloaded 3 packages in 2.53s
Installed 3 packages in 228ms
 + asgiref==3.8.1
 + django==5.0.6
 + sqlparse==0.5.0

This took 3s (As opposed to 33s taken by pip)

Installing ruff took less than a second 🤯

$ uv pip install ruff
Resolved 1 package in 269ms
Downloaded 1 package in 782ms
Installed 1 package in 9ms
 + ruff==0.4.8

Create a virtual environment

uv is not just a pip replacement. It can also create a virtual environment for you.

Use uv env to create a virtual environment.

By default, it is created at .venv.

But if you pass an argument, you can use some other name e.g. uv venv my_venv

It is a standard virtual environment. So source .venv/bin/activate and deactivate works as you would expect.