uv by Astral (also behind Ruff) is a new-ish Python project management tool that you may have already heard praise about. uv simplifies environment and dependency management for Python (truly, finally) and is blazingly fast, thus potentially streamlining also geospatial workflows reliant on libraries such as GeoPandas, rasterio and the like.
If you use Python in your geospatial tooling, I highly recommend reading this very level-headed and thorough one-year review of uv by Bite Code!
Snippets:
uv’s vision is brilliant. There, I said it.
But also (… level-headed):
Basically, there are 5 situations when you should not use uv.
As to the name, cf.