[thundergolfer]

Python is not well supported. The official rules_python has an inadequate third-party packaging solution that has led to ~5 open source alternatives existing that each fix a subset of the issues in the official.

Given that the Python community is really oriented around the PyPi registry and pip packaging tool having a good Bazel-native packaging solution is near essential, but right now it’s not quite there.

[lima]

Yeah, what's missing is first-party integration with the package manager (like Gazelle for Go) with proper dependency locking.