Charming wild snakes with pyproject.nix & uv2nix

Pip, Conda, Poetry, and now, the Rust-based Uv. Python is a complex ecosystem fraught with pitfalls, fragmentation & historic legacy.

Nix provides a unifying way to deal with complex software environments. However, language integration tooling for Python has been lacking.

In this talk we'll explore pyproject.nix & uv2nix to wrangle everything from simple projects using requirements.txt & pyproject.toml to complex applications and monorepos.