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For one, the package management in Python sucks so bad it's not funny. This alone is a reason enough for me to never touch Python again.

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Yes but "sucking so bad its not even funny" is still superior to maven and ant (and as another user mentioned, pipenv is a very good approximation of Cargo, which is a really good build and package management system).

I would take Maven and Ant any day over having to play with virtual environments, multiple Python installations and Python 2/3 dictonomy.

That’s not much different than managing multiple JVMs and classpaths: 1-2 lines of code and you never think about it until you do a major upgrade.

If you need to use Python again, look at pipenv – it automates all of that for you down to one command, similar to e.g. Rust’s cargo:

https://docs.pipenv.org/

You mean dichotomy, and the war is pretty much over everything supports python3 now.

Thanks for the correction.

Pretty much is not everything, for example Cocos2d-x scripts.

That's not a library, it's a platform. There are all kinds of platforms stuck on ancient Java versions (Android), for which libraries are not always compatible. Every package you'll use is compatible, unless you're Mozilla's build system.

While pipenv [1] isn't perfect, it does sooth that pain quite a bit.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pipenv

Im curious what languages you use. Because while python's package management might not be great, I would definitely put it in the top 5. Most languages have bad package management, including go.

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