> They aren't portable. You need to package up your editable project for an offline system? Too bad, virtual environments use hardcoded paths and symlinks that

> They aren't portable. You need to package up your editable project for an offline system? Too bad, virtual environments use hardcoded paths and symlinks that will be broken when you try. This isn't 100% true. If you carefully use the same python version and the same path for your venv and python then copying the venv between computers works perfectly. I've done it many times, actually last time I changed my computer I copied over all my projects and venvs and everything worked flawlessly.