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by pphysch 593 days ago
> My worst experiences universally have always been python projects. I don't think I've had a single time where I cloned a python project and had it just work.

I got a new Chromebook from work, and had VSCode+Docker running an existing Postgres+Django+etc dev environment in literally 15 minutes. I was shocked. Devcontainers are magic, and poor Python DX is a skill issue.

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> Poor Python DX is a skill issue

Oh yes, the language whose ecosystem only hears about backwards compatibility in their own death marches? Not their problem. It's the developers, it's _their_ problem.

Not the standard library which _removes_ packages, breaking code which I recently cloned. See "imp".

And not the next python version, which throws a syntax error on bare excepts, breaking old code for absolutely zero benefit beyond pretending to be a linter.