I'd hazard a guess that it is because Python is so old. It was literally created in the 80s. Package management, explosion of dependencies, multiple implementat

I'd hazard a guess that it is because Python is so old. It was literally created in the 80s. Package management, explosion of dependencies, multiple implementations of the interpreter, being added to the base operating system, and all that fancy stuff came after. I remember doing versioning and packaging in C++ in early 2000s, and it being just as annoying but for different reasons. People are trying to fix it, and their are some great packages out there that make it easier. Pyenv, Poetry, this asdf tool the fine article mentions, all seem like good solutions.