Well if he followed internet trends he'd try Rust next, which doesn't exactly have the most straightforward package system either.
I ran into one with Go imports just the other day, and since I’m new to it, it wasn’t a 10 minute google fix.
Python packaging has historically been so bad that dotcloud invented docker in an attempt to make it usable.
Unless you have a Python version locally that doesn't support some features used in said .py file...
Just importing doesn't seem to work for millions of people:
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Nested `mod`s with sometimes `pub` and then `use` for other stuff certainly seems more complex to me than `import X from P`.
Package/crate management is fairly trivial in both cases, yes. `npm i [package]` isn't exactly a difficult process either.
i don't think it's possible to do that any more with Python, the genie is out of the bottle. but you can get close with things like Black (auto-formatting) and Poetry (nicer deps mgmt and so much more). of course, how would a beginner know this? hopefully some day tools like that will become the default answers