Sorry, the fact that typical Rust programming style is much faster than typical Python style is irrelevant to the fact that a Rust tool is faster than its Python competitor? Riiight.
> My thesis is that pip doesn't have to be the way it is in order to actually solve the problem of installing Python packages.
Ok but the actual debate was about whether `uv` is faster because it is written in Rust. The answer is yes because when you put a normal amount of effort into writing Python or Rust you run into all these problems in Python that you don't run into in Rust.
Sure you can defer imports, but that's a pretty uncommon thing to do in Python.
It's like, you wouldn't say "bicycles are just as fast as cars; as long as you attach a jet engine to the bicycle!". Yes, technically possible, but nobody does that.
It was pretty clear I meant AoT compilation.
> Which is irrelevant to the point.
Sorry, the fact that typical Rust programming style is much faster than typical Python style is irrelevant to the fact that a Rust tool is faster than its Python competitor? Riiight.
> My thesis is that pip doesn't have to be the way it is in order to actually solve the problem of installing Python packages.
Ok but the actual debate was about whether `uv` is faster because it is written in Rust. The answer is yes because when you put a normal amount of effort into writing Python or Rust you run into all these problems in Python that you don't run into in Rust.
Sure you can defer imports, but that's a pretty uncommon thing to do in Python.
It's like, you wouldn't say "bicycles are just as fast as cars; as long as you attach a jet engine to the bicycle!". Yes, technically possible, but nobody does that.