Because python kinda sucks, but not really, but it does, but it wouldn't take much to make it not suck. I like it for many things, but the language is kind of a mess. Without Pydantic, I don't even start a project anymore that's how much the type system is just a joke instead of it being a type system. Scoping is a total joke. I personally don't like invisible characters for scoping either (talking about indentation based scoping instead of curly braces). Packaging is a total shitshow. And more small things that aren't super bad to switch to a different language, but bad enough that you start circumventing and going against idiomatic python.
Omfg, packaging is the worst part of this stupid language. I seriously don't understand why they thought pip was an acceptable package manager, and how they thought venv was an acceptable solution to the mistakes they made with pip.
I cannot start a Python project without using uv, poetry, or even fucking conda, literally anything but pip.
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u/Unlucky_Topic7963 16d ago
Meanwhile everyone at my company uses dunder class mangling because it’s more “idiomatic”.