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by pmoriarty 3146 days ago
Python's packaging is a nightmare of half-baked, incompatible approaches that puts the lie to the famous "Zen of Python" that "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
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and yet Pipenv is miles ahead of what Go has to offer.
And yet pip has just worked for me. Can’t say the same about any of the go dep tools.
Try using pip to install multiple versions of the same library at the same time, or the same library running under different versions of Python.
Agreed on the packaging side, but the python community / existing libs (the entire rest of the ecosystem) is miles ahead of Go's at this point.
Bold choice.