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by dwattttt 8 days ago
That's not actually a good thing. General purpose programming languages as configuration file formats also give you "can do anything"; but when it comes time to try to improve or update the Python package ecosystem, you're forced to break backwards compatibility. Or give up on whole classes of improvements, because you can't constrain package behaviour at all.
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You mean like how wayland is breaking backwards compatibility?
Yes, I do. And X11 is the "Or give up on whole classes of improvements, because you can't constrain package behaviour at all."

Or really, give up on anything that might change behaviour, if you don't want to break back compat.

The only improvement is isolation, which I don't care about since apps can all access my clipboard and my home anyway.