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So I'm no expert, but I have been a hobbyist C and Rust dev for a while now, and I've installed tons of programs from GitHub and whatnot that required manual compilation or other hoops to jump through, but I am constantly befuddled installing python apps. They seem to always need a very specific (often outdated) version of python, require a bunch of venv nonsense, googling gives tons of outdated info that no longer works, and generally seem incredibly not portable. As someone who doesn't work in python, it seems more obtuse than any other language's ecosystem. Why is it like this?

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[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago

Python is hacky, because it hacks. There’s a bunch of ways you can do anything. You can run it on numerous platforms, or even on web assembly. It’s not maintained centrally. Each “app” you find is just somebodies hack project they’re sharing with you for fun.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

After using python, I'm of the opinion that perl was much cleaner.

[-] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 3 points 21 hours ago

Nothing comes close to Perl’s abuse of global variables. Oh you called this function? Take a guess which global variables it will use.

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