[simonw]

How is it misleading?

The question is why Python packaging has such a complicated history. The age of the language is entirely relevant to that - the reason Go and Rust have it so good here is that they are much younger, coming out after may of the initial packaging lessons had been learned elsewhere.

[wishitwerentso]

it is misleading because I was around 35 years ago, and very few people were using Python. Python did not become very popular until web frameworks and pandas became a thing in python.

[wishitwerentso]

if you doubt this, ask any llm "what was the first year where Python users surpassed the number of Perl users?"

[simonw]

I still don't understand why that makes what I wrote "misleading". I never said Python was popular 35 years, I just said that the age of the language was relevant to understanding why the packaging history is complex.