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Not really windows, WSL. There's windows fork recommended. Classic python splitting the ecosystem up. Why something like this isn't in go or rust that's actually cross platform capable just seems like excess effort.

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Because thanks to WSL the lingua franca of scripting languages is bash and that’s how pyenv started. Rewriting when it works fine on Windows and every dev I know uses WSL anyway is excess effort.

Hell, the fork could have used Go or whatever too but it went with a bunch of .bat scripts.

Hello from corporate America where WSL is most certainly not standard and will require a virgin sacrifice if you want to get it approved by IT.

Which is to say, no pyenv is not an option for everyone.

Indeed, I recently worked on a fairly simple deployment for a state government agency. When I described the process to their IT staff and mentioned that we prefer using WSL, they looked at me like I had grown 2 heads.

Even aside from that, WSL is only useful if you are writing code that will run on Linux at the end of the day. This is usually true for web apps, but that's not the only thing people write in Python. Libraries, in particular, need to be able to target Windows directly.

or even if you want to build a python binary for windows, you can't cross compile it as far as I've found

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