I mean, it sounds like it’s gonna be a fairly large codebase. Rust is definitely better equipped for large codebases than Python…
I do agree that Python could give them more outside contributors, but from my experience, I don’t think it’s worth swaying from your preferred tooling for that. Outside contributions will make up barely a fraction of code changes either way, so you should rather ensure that your core team is productive.
Are you referring to the workspace feature of uv? Is that working well?
Management might want us to revive a project from a few years ago, which is like 5% Python, but for which we had to build a homegrown horrid implementation of workspace builds, using shell scripts and symlinks. We’d definitely want to get rid of that, if uv’s workspace builds work at all, really. 🫠
I mean, it sounds like it’s gonna be a fairly large codebase. Rust is definitely better equipped for large codebases than Python…
I do agree that Python could give them more outside contributors, but from my experience, I don’t think it’s worth swaying from your preferred tooling for that. Outside contributions will make up barely a fraction of code changes either way, so you should rather ensure that your core team is productive.
Python can also be used for large codebases (thanks
uv), but I agree that Rust is better suited to the job.Are you referring to the workspace feature of
uv? Is that working well?Management might want us to revive a project from a few years ago, which is like 5% Python, but for which we had to build a
homegrownhorrid implementation of workspace builds, using shell scripts and symlinks. We’d definitely want to get rid of that, ifuv’s workspace builds work at all, really. 🫠uv’s workspaces work, yep. It’s honestly great. Haven’t really run into any issues with them yet.