alt Hacker NewsTangent but... I kinda like the Python language. What I don't like about Python is the way environments are managed.
This is something I generally believe, but I think it's particularly important for things like languages and runtimes: the idea of installing things "on" the OS or the system needs to die.
Per-workspace or per-package environment the way Go, Rust, etc. does it is correct. Installing packages globally is wrong.
There should not be such a thing as "globally." Ideally the global OS should be immutable or nearly so, with the only exception being maybe hardware driver stuff.
(Yes I know there's stuff like conda, but that's yet another thing to fix a fundamentally broken paradigm.)
> This is something I generally believe, but I think it's particularly important for things like languages and runtimes: the idea of installing things "on" the OS or the system needs to die.
Python has been trying to kill it for years; or at least, the Linux distros have been seeking Python's help in killing it on Linux for years. https://peps.python.org/pep-0668/ is the latest piece of this.