1) python appeals to a lot of people that work in development-adjacent industries (like AI). These people don’t usually have to care about packaging
2) Python has gone through many outdated forms of packaging
3) The zen of python seems to have encouraged everyone to install third party libraries for the smallest of tasks (implementing retries, formatting phone numbers, etc). These small packages often have only a few number of maintainers who end up dropping off the map.
Modern python package management works pretty well, but there’s so much debt in the ecosystem I’m not sure when it’ll be better for end users.
1) python appeals to a lot of people that work in development-adjacent industries (like AI). These people don’t usually have to care about packaging
2) Python has gone through many outdated forms of packaging
3) The zen of python seems to have encouraged everyone to install third party libraries for the smallest of tasks (implementing retries, formatting phone numbers, etc). These small packages often have only a few number of maintainers who end up dropping off the map.
Modern python package management works pretty well, but there’s so much debt in the ecosystem I’m not sure when it’ll be better for end users.