🔬 Part 2: What’s inside UV, How Rust Powers Next-Gen Package Manager
Last Updated on May 14, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Harshit Kandoi
Originally published on Towards AI.
In Part 1 of this series, we were introduced to UV, a sleek, Rust-powered tool changing how Python developers manage their virtual environments and dependencies. Designed with simplicity and speed in mind, UV addresses the day-to-day pain points of every Python developer. Like, slow installs, messy setup steps, and scattered tooling that doesn’t work well together, UV fixes all that by giving you one simple and clean tool that handles everything smoother and faster way..
In the previous blog, we walked through the fundamentals like installing UV, switching virtual environments with a single command, installing packages at blink speeds, and running scripts without needing to activate anything manually. The entire process was meant to feel less disheartening while handling dependencies and more likely to focus on actual coding.
We also compared UV to some well-known tools like pip, Poetry, and virtualenv. The results were clear: UV combines the ease of pip, the environment management system of virtualenv, and the reliability of Poetry, which executes all of it with the raw power of Rust.
In short, UV isn’t just another Python tool, it’s a new beginning for every Python developer.
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