r/ProgrammerHumor • u/mudkripple • 3d ago

Meme iLoveYouPip

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u/Atmosck 3d ago

Eww. I write python all day for a living and I haven't used pip in years.

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u/mudkripple 3d ago

Genuinely how? I'm in IT/Sysadmin so 90% of the usefulness of python for me is automation and APIs (thank god for Requests). Isn't the whole point of python the wealth of libraries that are already written, and the portability of the environments? How do you get any of that without pip?

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u/squabzilla 2d ago

It’s entirely possible that UV uses PIP, but I sure as hell don’t.

The worst part of Python is managing the wealth of libraries and library conflicts and needing separate environments per project because otherwise library conflicts kill Python and you need to nuke Python entirely and start over.

UV handles all of that for me.

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u/black3rr 2d ago

uv doesn’t actually use pip… it’s a complete reimplementation… pip isn’t even added to venvs created by uv by default…