[saila]

I don't think there's a consensus, but there are some good modern options. I think poetry is a good choice, and it seems to be fairly popular. I use it for all my Python projects and haven't found a compelling reason to switch to another option in the past few years.

As to the question of whether you should ever use pip to install packages globally, the answer is almost always no. For command line tools, the best option IMO is pipx. The second best option is pip install --user.

If you're developing a library or application, you should always isolate it in a virtualenv, which is something poetry will handle for you when you run `poetry install`.