I think a lot of rust rewrites have this benefit; if you start with hindsight you can do better more easily. Of course, rust is also often beneficial for its own sake, so it's a one-two punch:)
"Rewrite" is important as "Rust".
I think Rust itself has this benefit
Helpfully, though, uv retains compatibility with newer (but still well-established) standards in the Python community that don't share this insanity!
> uv parses TOML and wheel metadata natively, only spawning Python when it hits a setup.py-only package that has no other option
The article implies that pip also prefers toml and wheel metadata, but has to shell out to parse those, unlike uv.
Not as far as I can tell, except perhaps in extended-support legacy environments (for example, ActiveState is still maintaining a Python 2.x distribution).