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So when you introduce or change a dependency to your project that affects what your dev environment must look like, how do you tie that change in with the main changes and make it available and consistent across all of your devs?

Email them? "Hey, everybody should upgrade to OpenCV version 4.1.5"? Garbage.

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Devs interact with APIs, not OS-level libraries. If you do scientific research, you probably use python notebook or sth like that. If you need that OS-level solution to be integrated in your dev environment, you put them to Lambda or some other amazon instance, or a dedicated server.

Who makes the code that powers the APIs?! Who writes the OS-level libraries? What about people that write software for automotive, IoT, robotics, machinery? Is it your understanding that python notebooks never need to call out to OS-level libraries? (what is conda for then??)

Web developers always just assume the entire world is other web developers, and confidently dispense advice without any caveat re. its limited purview. The world is bigger than python notebooks and shitty ruby apps.

Well we are on web.

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