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Comment by fermienrico

Python desperately needs a better packaging solution than pip from Python Software Foundation. Stop all new features until this - the biggest pain point for Python across all expertise levels from newbies to experienced Python programmers - is officially solved. No pipenv, no poetry, no conda, etc from third party devs who sometimes get tired of the pressure [1]. It is immense. Combine all this virtualenv stuff with great dependency management into one tool. In the spirit of Python, there should be only one way to package, manage dependencies and virtual environments. It should be super clean (see Go).

Python needs a BDFL to enforce the hive mind. It is a fucking mess and it's unacceptable. Python is otherwise the most incredible language of our times. It is so far ahead of anything out there for general purpose use.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/4058

parent fermienrico 6 years ago

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