alt Hacker NewsIt's utter garbage outside of a controlled environment. Youtube can use it because Youtube will have an official environment and there will be no such thing as a script that was written in one version or with one module installed that then breaks at run time.
The impressive size of the big users actually works against proving how great it is.
Use the official version inside Google or Netflix: ok.
Use in a package where the package manager ensures all dependencies and versions are met exactly: ok
Use by writing and immediately using and discarding today: ok
Write a random script and expect it to work in 6 months or on any other machine or god forbid another platform: forget it.
python is great for the author and miserable for everyone else
I assume the last time you used python was during the transition from 2 to 3?
I haven't had any problems with versions over the last 5 years. conda is a really good way of ensuring you get the same environment if you need to freeze versions.