[rgoulter]

> What’s the escape hatch to bring those into the dev environment?

One thing you can do is try the Nix package manager on your Linux or macOS system. -- If it's not in nix, you can just do it the way you did things before.

If you want to try NixOS:

1. Writing a package is only necessary for sharing code.. you can still just have Python, setup a virtual env, & run the program as you would.

2. You could use a tool like Podman or Docker, to run stuff in containers. I've heard stuff like https://github.com/containers/toolbox helps this.

(Among other solutions).