This is one of the better tech articles I've seen on here recently. The analysis of why Python vs. node ecosystems vary in dependency depth and breadth is good

This is one of the better tech articles I've seen on here recently. The analysis of why Python vs. node ecosystems vary in dependency depth and breadth is good food for thought. Python has long been a "batteries" included language whereas node has not. Node makes it easy to publish packages whereas my experience with python is that it is quite difficult to get a handle on doing PyPI (versus Anaconda!) the right way. Publishing wheels versus source is confusing and it took me a while to understand the nuances. There's also the idea of supporting python2 vs python3, which people from different quarters will criticize no matter what approach you take. Publishing binaries on Python is also difficult and a highly skilled endeavor requiring additional knowledge of compiling shared objects, docker, and the baroque manylinux concept. Once you have a system down, it becomes easy, but that took me about 6-12 months of accepting increasingly complex requirements before I could get a decent handle on it. I have not tried publishing binaries on npm so I can't say what the relative experience is.