> Is there anything being done in uv that couldn't be done in Python?
Speed, at the very least.
You could just ignore uv and use whatever you want...
In an ecosystem where the primary implementation of the language is in C and nearly all native extensions are written in C do you really not know the answer to that?
They've been teaching C in universities for like 40 years to every Computer Science and Engineering student. The number of professionally trained developers who know C compared to Rust is not even close. (And a lot of us are writing Python because it's easy and productive, not because we don't know other languages.)
Ps the government and others have all recommended moving from C/C++ to Rust... It's irrelevant whether or not that's well-founded - it simply is.
And plenty of other cli tools have been successfully and popularly ported to Rust.