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I recently hit the "classic" case. Saw a CLI tool for an API I'd like to use, written in Python. Tried it and found out it didn't work on my machine. I later

by lynx23 3y ago

I recently hit the "classic" case. Saw a CLI tool for an API I'd like to use, written in Python. Tried it and found out it didn't work on my machine. I later found out it was a bug in a dependency of that tool. 100 lines of shell script later, I had the functionality I needed, and a codebase which was actually free of unexpected surprises. I know, this is an extreme example, but as personal anecotes go, Python has lost a lot of trust from my side. I also wonder how people can write >10k codebases without static types, but that is just me ....

iopq 3y ago
It's not that Python is bad. It's the people who want to just hack something quick together go to Python, so any time you pick up some software written in Python it's marred with all kinds of compatibility issues and bugs where you can't just run it The answer is "yeah use this other software to make it work in an isolated way because the whole ecosystem is actually broken" and that's somehow acceptable