As a "self taught and still learning developer-lite", I love the python language, but the ecosystem drives me nuts. I feel a lot of the pain expressed in the article, and it pretty much speaks to my current conclusion of "I'm trying to do things the 'right way' but there doesn't seem to be a 'right way'".

I've seen a few comments here about how Nix/NixOS fixes the whole python binary/library mess, but I'm having trouble understanding how. Does anyone have any insight to share about that?

Additionally, the whole thing kind of makes me want to move away from python wholesale. I was wondering if there are other languages that are great general languages like python that don't suffer from this whole packaging and versioning mess. Ruby? Go? Something else? I'm looking for something high level, somewhat easy to learn, and with good library support for things like working with databases and tabular data. Though I don't know much about them, I just feel like I don't want something like Java or C++ or anything like that. I want to "get things done" and not have to worry about tons of boilerplate or working at really low nitty gritty levels.