Yes, I know that #PDM and #Hatch did similar things, but the beauty of uv is that it doesn’t need anything to work. uv is the first and the last thing you have to manually install; heck, it even runs in busybox! It gets rid of the weakest link when it comes to managing Python (namely Python)
Now, what I really really hope for is that uv’s hype pull more people’s attention to the stuff that is not yet standardized (dev dependencies, lockfiles, dependency groups). The Python packaging ecosystem is very close to being good, it just needs more input