I have to ask, to clarify some points: are you referring to a library for use in a project, or a standalone tool? > have you installed anything with Python rec

I have to ask, to clarify some points: are you referring to a library for use in a project, or a standalone tool? > have you installed anything with Python recently? It’s not exactly speedy itself Yes? I’ve never thought, “man this is slow,” which is very unlike my few experiences with npm. IIRC yarn was quite a bit faster, but I haven’t used either in some time. If you have a list of packages as a benchmark, I’m happy to try to come up with an equivalently-sized Python list and compare the two. > Given I can’t remember the last time I used an application that relied on the system providing the runtime (let alone the correct version) instead of shipping their required version, I’m not sure this is really much of a point. I think you’re missing the point – systems often ship with tooling written in Python because it’s a reasonable language, with a relatively stable ecosystem. Python versions don’t EOL for at least 5 years. Node is about half that.