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Is Python's tooling incredibly difficult, or am I just stupid?
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I'm no Python expert either and yeah, from an outsider's perspective it seems needlessly confusing.
easy_install
that's never been easy,pip
that should absolutely be put on a Performance Improvement Plan, and now thisvenv
nonsense.You can criticize javascript's ridiculous dependencies all you want (left-pad?), but one thing that they absolutely got right is how to manage them. Everything's in
node_modules
and that's it. Yeah, you might get eleven copies of left-pad on your system, but you know what you NEVER get? Version conflicts between projects you're working on.Seriously. Those are EXACTLY the thoughts I had after I was forced to deal with Python after a ton of time writing projects in JS.