I've stuck with simple tools for all these years: pip, pip-tools, virtualenvwrapper etc. I've tried other stuff like poetry and it's always seemed like hard work. I'm glad I waited for uv. The one thing I wish it supported is having venvs outside of project directories. It's so much nicer to have them all in one place (like ~/.venvs or something) which you can ignore for backups etc. That's the only thing I miss, though.
I'm also only missing virtualenvwrapper-like support for central named venvs in uv.
I'm too used to type virtualenvwrapper's `workon` and `mkvirtualenv` commands, so I've written some lightweight replacement scripts of virtualenvwrapper when using uv. Supports tab completion and implements only the core functionality of virtualenvwrapper:
