Your opinion here is totally valid. Npm has a lot more magic involved than doing stuff by hand with virtualenv. And yes, aliases and bash scripts help a lot, b

Your opinion here is totally valid. Npm has a lot more magic involved than doing stuff by hand with virtualenv. And yes, aliases and bash scripts help a lot, but do increase initial overhead. I have the entire "delete create install" sequence in an alias as well as activate in another. But envs are just files, you can even skip activate and just do `.env/bin/python` and it works. That's powerful in a linux shell because now I can just use that environment like a regular executable from anywhere, no global installs required. I can appreciate preferring something less manual even if I don't! Ultimately, your machine, your code.