The complexity of modern tool-chains suck, specially when you are just beginning. It gets you very confused, and some people end just giving up. Python is confu

The complexity of modern tool-chains suck, specially when you are just beginning. It gets you very confused, and some people end just giving up. Python is confusing with all the environment juggling if you're at the stage of doing something not trivial. But for the beginner, at least it gives you IDLE, a barebones IDE by default. I think there is a parallel universe where I use Ruby as my main language, instead of Python, as I tried Ruby before Python, several years ago. But in this timeline I got stuck trying to call the Ruby interpreter from Geany, and never came back. Similarly, I tried to learn Clojure before Pharo. Spent over a hour setting Atom with all dependencies required to convert the editor into a Clojure IDE. But I botched the set-up somewhere, and ended with a dead REPL. Again, never came back. The best experience I had so far, as a beginner trying a new programming language, was Pharo. You type a couple of lines in the terminal, and gets a full environment with _everything_ you need included in the system image. No need to spending a lot of time wrangling dependencies to get a functional system. I think the image-based development strategy from the Smalltalks is underrated.