[J_Shelby_J]

Meh, the amount of effort required to keep up to date with the python ecosystem churn is around the same as learning rust. More so if you are starting from scratch.

I quit python after realizing the amount of effort it required to just implement the tooling for a project… when all of that comes included with rust. I have spent maybe an hour in the last year thinking about tooling. Glorious.

But yeah, I feel for you. It is an impossible sell when they pay off is impossible to understand without a Time Machine and the only thing known about the cost is that it’s high. But for new people and projects, I can’t imagine starting with python in 2026.

[pmontra]

Which Python tooling? I know that uv is replacing pip but all of my costumers' projects still use pip. One of them installed python with asdf. I can't think about any other tool we are using except Claude, but I don't think that's the kind of tool we are writing about. We deploy with a custom bash script resembling Ruby's Capistrano. Those projects are web apps with server generated HTML.