18 engineers on Hacker News describe using Poetry first-hand: 8 endorse it, 4 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I'm very happy with pyenv+poetry combo.”
endorse · personal · irjustin · 2025-03-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our management scripts make more sense as poetry script, so we don't go through manage.py but instead `poetry run <command>`”
endorse · production · scrollaway · 2025-01-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at $DAYJOB we switched from Poetry to Rye starting from version 0.15”
regret · production · catwell · 2024-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“had to spend lots of time fixing issues with Poetry/Python”
regret · production · brabel · 2022-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Because this is built using the poetry lock file, it'll always be exactly the same unless we specifically update something with poetry.”
endorse · production · butisaidsudo · 2022-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Poetry exclusively for the past few years. I had a couple small problems with it early on”
endorse · personal · saila · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't recommend using Poetry in production - I've had massive headaches with it due to”
regret · production · tfehring · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The best dependency manager (Poetry) is buggy.”
regret · production · petters · 2020-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Poetry works like a dream now, and life is so much easy now that we have switched all our projects to it.”
endorse · production · Humphrey · 2020-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Poetry for a few months, and it's been a blast!”
endorse · personal · hobofan · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have moved our dependency management from pipenv to poetry and hasn't been more happier than now”
endorse · production · dragonsh · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Over two days, I moved our entire codebase and every single (active) personal project I had to poetry. I don't regret it”
endorse · production · cik · 2018-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“manage Poetry stubs and virtualenvs (most of this is configured behind the scenes upstream”
neutral · production · pxc · 2025-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For work projects we use poetry because of an assumption that we would need something better”
neutral · production · These335 · 2024-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“moving from poetry to uv was rock solid. No issues and it just worked.”
neutral · production · colemannerd · 2024-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Poetry has some newer features that I am looking at trying to implement”
neutral · production · drawnwren · 2024-08-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I generally use poetry for dependency management (only runs in dev)”
neutral · production · danmur · 2024-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Going to adopt this variant from now on, I guess.”
neutral · personal · Hackbraten · 2024-03-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?