Clojure CLI vs uv
Clojure CLI
clojure.org
uv
docs.astral.shSide by side
| Figure | Clojure CLI | uv |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · Package Managers | 8.0 (#38) | 8.9 (#4) |
| Dependency resolution | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Integrations | The CLI can use Clojure and other JVM-based libraries, with dependencies downloaded from public repositories such as Maven Central. | The documentation lists integrations and guides for Docker, Jupyter, marimo, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Pre-commit, PyTorch, FastAPI, and several package registries. |
| Package formats | Maven JARs,Git repositories,local directories,local JARs | source distributions,wheels,requirements.txt,pylock.toml |
| Private registry auth | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | The Clojure CLI runs Clojure programs on the Java Virtual Machine and uses deps.edn files to configure and download dependencies. | uv is an extremely fast Python package and project manager written in Rust. |
| Security | The latest listed Linux and POSIX installer changes include embedding and checking checksums in the installers. | uv uses TLS with rustls and bundled Mozilla root certificates by default to verify HTTPS connections. |
| Supported platforms | Windows,macOS,Linux,POSIX systems; Java required | macOS,Linux,Windows,CPython,PyPy,Pyodide,GraalPy |
| Workspace support | Yes | Yes |
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uv
uv is a Python package and project manager for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Written in Rust, it manages dependencies and environments, with lockfiles and workspaces, and can install, list, pin, or uninstall Python versions. It also runs scripts with dependencies and runs or installs command-line tools from Python packages. Its pip-compatible interface is intended to cover work done by tools such as pip, pip-tools, pipx, poetry, pyenv, twine, and virtualenv, though its commands do not exactly match those tools. The documentation describes uv as 10–100x faster than pip. It supports source distributions, wheels, requirements.txt, and pylock.toml, as well as offline installation and private registry authentication. For package selection, its default first-index strategy limits candidates to the first index where a package is found. Credentials are not stored in uv.lock, but uv currently stores them in a plaintext file; native system secret storage is an experimental preview. The free plan is free.