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The one thing holding Python back from completely eating my workflow of utils, glue, and hacks is environment isolation. Nothing sucks more than when activating
by tech_ken 3y ago
The one thing holding Python back from completely eating my workflow of utils, glue, and hacks is environment isolation. Nothing sucks more than when activating some venv breaks a background tool I wrote 3 years ago and forgot about. I recognize that this is a surmountable problem with at most moderate effort, but getting to a point of complete frictionlessness would really move the whole ecosystem forward a lot, IMO.
- bowsamic 3y agoThe thing is this is already way worse on UNIX than it is on Python
- tech_ken 3y agoSure, I've basically just accepted that I'll need to trash and rebuild my various Linux daily drivers every 1-2 years because of environment decay. All solutons I've seen (Qubes, Nix, etc) come off as a massive PITA given that I just want a FOSS laptop upon which I can tool around a little and maybe watch Netflix. For now I just use docker for Unix-y isolation, but still cumbersome. If Python could finally figure this out I think it would be a reason for massive celebration. Conda got close, but never quite nailed it