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 They seem to always need a very specific (often outdated) version of python, require a bunch of venv nonsense, googling gives tons of outdated info that no longer works, and generally seem incredibly not portable.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?

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    4 hours ago

    I agree. Python is my language of choice 80% or so of the time.

    But my god, it does packaging badly! Especially if it’s dependent on linking to compiled code!

    Why it is like that, I couldn’t tell. The language is older than git, so that might be part of it.

    However, you’re installing python libraries from github? I very very rarely have to do that. In what context do you have to do that regularly?