[ajross]

Right. That's the economic argument: hosting anonymously-submitted/unvetted/insecure/exploit-prone junkware is cheap. And so if you have a platform you're trying to push (like Python or Node[1]) you're strongly incentivized to root your users simply because if you don't your competitors will.

But it's still broken.

[1] Frankly even Rust has this disease with the way cargo is managed, though that remains far enough upstream of the danger zone to not be as much of a target. But the reckoning is coming there at some point.

[notatallshaw]

> is cheap

It's not even cheap, it's just possible to get companies to donate the resources to sustain it: https://dustingram.com/articles/2021/04/14/powering-the-pyth...

What it is is feasible, and IMO the alternative you're suggesting is infeasible under our current model of global economics without some kind of massive government funding.

> you're strongly incentivized to root your users simply because if you don't your competitors will

Python is not rooting it's users, this is hyperbole.