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> keeping them as standalone tools seems most natural

It's natural to us, purists, but I doubt people care. Everyone wants a single tool that allows them to `uv check` and `uv run` in every project without having to install anything.

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You have to install uv. Which isn't even present in many distributions.

If that's a hassle, imagine how much more of a hassle it is to install uv and ty and ruff.

Once you’ve installed uv, adding ruff and ty is trivial. Installing uv is the only hoop you need to jump.

Is it that big an inconvenience? Even if it were included, most software that’s included with a distro is stale the day it’s released.

Software isn't raw milk

It depends. A lot of popular software is relatively new and is subject to frequent upgrades: the rust ecosystem, uv, and mise to name a few. Even the distro’s own Python, Ruby, and Java runtimes are rarely used for software development.

Do you have any stats on that?

Are they rarely used because most software runs on even older versions?

No, it’s because containers.

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