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by andrewflnr 18 days ago
I was trying to be sympathetic and acknowledge virtualenv's potential flaws, actually, even though I haven't personally encountered them, but I guess that was a waste of time.
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Which part of this is sympathetic?

> This is unrealistic. You seem to have moved to Go as an alternative, but I know because I've seen the complaints that Go doesn't satisfy that standard either.

It's a dig - you completely ignore the valid complaints about Python to instead focus on what you think will provoke me.

The problem (for you) was, from the very start, I bought up the pain points with Go.

> Still, I'm not saying the problems aren't real, ...

> I'm going to blame that on Amazon frankly. That's definitely bizarre.

I'll grant I lost track of the context that you were trying to raise the possibility of some grand encompassing solution to all programming language package management. All I wanted was to reinforce the idea that virtualenv is Often Just Fine in practice, at least if used in sensible ways.

Only if you let it. I learned something from the response to my question.

Folks, take a step back, both of you. It's just software.