216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust
Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.
- Ruff can take the place of Flake8, isort, and Black, and so much more.
- uv can take the place of pip, pip-tools, and virtualenv
- Astral is Charlie's venture backed company, and what they have with `ruff` and `uv` is just the start.
Since uv is the newest tool, there's quite a bit of the discussion diving into uv.
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Creators and Guests
Guest
Charlie Marsh
Charlie is the creator of Ruff and uv, and the founder of Astral, a company dedicated to building high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem. He's spent his career working across programming ecosystems: first, at Khan Academy, where he focused on the Android, iOS, and web platforms; and most recently, as a Staff Software Engineer at Spring Discovery, where he led the development of a hybrid Rust-Python machine learning and data platform.
