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Why Is Python So Popular in 2025?
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I'm glad it's not just me lol every so often I'll think "I haven't done a python project in a while I'll try FastAPI" or something and I have so many issues just getting the env set up.
It's so ridiculous that many projects don't even support pip+venv (much less system python packages. shivers). They literally check if that's what you're trying and pre-emptively fail.
Some projects become impossible to run in any combination because some dependency (looking at you, sentencepiece) no longer works outside a narrow set of circumstances, unless you hand build some obscure github PR, disable all the dependency checks and cross your fingers and hope the wheel builds.
And I'm sorry, but I don't have 200GB of space, tons of spare RAM, and an intricate docker passthrough setup for every random python project. I just have like four different 3rd party managers (conda/mamba, uv, poetry... what's the other one? Ugh)