Lots of people like pip-tools, it would feel a lot more lightweight and closer to pip than Poetry does.
Pipenv exists but... steer clear for a multitude of reasons.
Personally I like that Poetry centers itself around the pyproject.toml standard. I also think that its usability and the enthusiasm of both the maintainers of the users is going to really carry it more into the Python mainstream in the coming years.
Personally I'm very disappointed that we keep inventing new standards, like pyproject.toml when other things have like setup.cfg, existed for an extended period of time, works well, and is supported for reading and writing by the stdlib.
I see pyproject.toml as more like 'tox.ini is nice, it's good that so many tools use it, but it's really nothing to do with tox', and bringing them (and hopefully those declining tox too) and setup.cfg into one.
Lots of people like pip-tools, it would feel a lot more lightweight and closer to pip than Poetry does.
Pipenv exists but... steer clear for a multitude of reasons.
Personally I like that Poetry centers itself around the pyproject.toml standard. I also think that its usability and the enthusiasm of both the maintainers of the users is going to really carry it more into the Python mainstream in the coming years.