This is the top reason I chose Perl for my project.
Literally every time I try to use someone else's Python code from GitHub I run into this crap.
I wanted my project to be easy to install and run, so I chose Perl.
Literally every time I try to use someone else's Python code from GitHub I run into this crap.
I wanted my project to be easy to install and run, so I chose Perl.
only half joking.
It's reasonable to expect this is not going to change.
In order to make the most of Lindy Effect, I avoid any dependencies with less than 20 years of backwards compatibility.
For some that means a subset of features. For some like Python it means any python scripts must be optional and have Perl duplicates.
Also, to pile on top of the stdlib problems - it's probably clear to most everyone at this point - but NVIDIA and Google (tensorflow) are really some of the biggest reasons python sucks in this way. They're the ones that cause most of the breakage. Starting with Nvidia making breaking changes, which then propagates to tensorflow et al, and then to enormous number of packages that depend on these fundamental packages.
So to summarize, it's mostly Nvidia's fault.