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I was going to disagree that Python's is the worst, but then I thought about it and.. yeah, it's up there. I think there are definitely some other ecosystems wi

by junon 4y ago

I was going to disagree that Python's is the worst, but then I thought about it and.. yeah, it's up there. I think there are definitely some other ecosystems with worse package management systems but they're certainly not as mainstream as Python.

rpigab 4y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1987/ https://xkcd.com/1987/ As I've said, I still love it and use it a lot, easy to write, easy to explain and share, easy to run without dependencies and if your code runs the same on different versions of Python, but hard to choose which type of virtualenv you want to use, then pick the right versions of dependencies that work together (if you have big dependencies like in data science for example, and some of them are less maintained than others, which happens because the Python ecosystem is rich but people start projects and move on, happens everywhere but because it's easy to start a project in Python, it's also easy to leave it unmaintained). I love explaining Python code to non coders!