I know this section is really just a comparrison of pyproject.toml and cargo.toml, but who on earth would use pip instead of UV as a drop-in replacement in 2026? Though calling it a comparrison is a bit of a stretch considering there is no text.
On top of that, I imagine that a lot of Python programmers who actually do use pip would also use requirements.txt and not pyproject.toml
Packaging, concurrency, and type errors had me strongly considering switching to Go or Rust recently. These are such long-solved problems in other languages that I question why we should put up with it in Python. Then, I remember it was the ecosytem, including job market and AI performance, that made me use Python.
So, maybe a Python/Rust combo... There's the extensions the OP article mentioned and a Python interpreter written in Rust.
Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.