| I really find it quite astounding just how much absolute nonsense python programmers are willing to put up with. Needing more than one, MAYBE two versions of your language installed is insanity. If I build a Python widget and send it to my non-programmer coworker, there is exactly zero chance it will work until I walk over and manually set up the correct language. Instead I use a language that natively compiles to an exe. Python is pretty neat, but the concept of a program that just works anywhere is so utterly alien that I genuinely cannot find any practical use for it. I can't just install a pip package to use globally, I have to set up some goddamn virtual environment because everything is so brittle that nothing works without the exact correct language version. It's like NPM all over again. Dependency hell is so bad that your package manager is now a dependency so we need a package manager manager to manage installing the correct package manager version to then install the correct packages. Every single time I've come up to some Python thing or other, I spend about fifteen minutes fucking with it before giving up and using a tool built in a sane language. The fact that I can't just send any random person a program and expect it to run at all is just lunacy. And no, compiled Python does not count because that's even more brittle tooling on top of all the other bullshit I have to deal with. If it doesn't work out of the box, it's a bad tool and I have far better things to do with my very valuable time. |
I am only half-kidding. But it appears the industry as a whole is concentrating effort on fewer languages and Python is one of them. If I want to distribute my app - I write it in React, but I still often use python in the process: prototyping, asking GPT to rewrite X from python to typescript, making mock servers for tests / preparing data for unit tests.