[6gvONxR4sf7o]

Oof, that footnote:

> It’s 2020, but reliably compiling software from source, on different computer setups, is still an unsolved problem. There are no good ways to manage different versions of compilers, different versions of libraries needed to compile the main program etc.

I wonder how much stuff like this has to do with python's popularity. When I have opaque issues like "libaslkdjfasf.so is angry with you and/or out to lunch and/or not doing expected things," it's the most frustrating part of programming. I'd pay devops people infinite money to not have to deal with installation/setup issues anymore.

[mariokostelac]

I think this is not a problem specific to python packages, but a general problem of how we compile C/C++ software. There is no concept of packages and compiling one thing often requires installing a -dev package of some other library.

The issue is that lack of packaging C/C++ world spreads to all other communities that depend on them.