Come on..it's very, very far from a debacle. It has strengths and weaknesses, sure. But a debacle? pip, pip-tools (to generate a lock file), and virtualenv a

Come on..it's very, very far from a debacle. It has strengths and weaknesses, sure. But a debacle? pip, pip-tools (to generate a lock file), and virtualenv are all I've needed for years now. I just started using pyenv to install Python on Ubuntu. Before that I was using the deadsnakes ppa. The tools are there to use as needed. You don't have to install or learn them until...you have to. Which may very well be never. If you avoid Python and all its benefits because of its packaging situation, it's really your loss. I just hope no one reads this and gets scared off thinking that this top voted comment matches reality. It's not that hard to get your bearings and the Python foundation has invested heavily into the packaging ecosystem the last few years. For example: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/ https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/