I HATE PYTHON
I HATE PYTHON
Posted May 22, 2025 16:22 UTC (Thu) by Karellen (subscriber, #67644)In reply to: I HATE PYTHON by geofft
Parent article: Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
Python package managers install packages' dependencies too.
Even non-Python dependencies, which are generally distributed outside of Python package repos?!?
Oh. My. God.
That does clear up some confusion I was having around binary packages for Python though. Like, why do you need binaries for a scripting language at all?
Anyway, I've been doing some stuff in Python recently, just using the system python. I've been thinking about looking into non-system-python stuff, and even packaging some of my code, but been put off by the multitude of python packaging systems, and an apparent lack of consensus around which to use. I think I'll just give them all a miss now, and try looking at another language altogether. Or maybe take up goat farming instead.
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