So I’m no expert, but I have been a hobbyist C and Rust dev for a while now, and I’ve installed tons of programs from GitHub and whatnot that required manual compilation or other hoops to jump through, but I am constantly befuddled installing python apps. They seem to always need a very specific (often outdated) version of python, require a bunch of venv nonsense, googling gives tons of outdated info that no longer works, and generally seem incredibly not portable. As someone who doesn’t work in python, it seems more obtuse than any other language’s ecosystem. Why is it like this?

  • @AnUnusualRelic
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    414 days ago

    After using python, I’m of the opinion that perl was much cleaner.

    • magic_lobster_party
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      314 days ago

      Nothing comes close to Perl’s abuse of global variables. Oh you called this function? Take a guess which global variables it will use.

    • Billegh
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      114 days ago

      Yes. Its line noise was of a much higher quality. 😉