I thought for a moment I was missing something here. I always just use winget for this sort of thing as well. It may kickoff a bunch of things, but it’s pretty low effort and reliable.

But those are installed system wide. What if you have two different project with different requirements at the same time?

Every language should have a tool like Python uv.

Nearly all of the Windows hate i see comes from 20 year old takes . ( the bing/cortana / copilot / ads slop criticism is warranted, but is also easily disabled).