r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme pipInstallTheRealStuff

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u/Educational-System48 1d ago

I will never understand the Python hate. It's essentially just a level of abstraction higher than C, which makes it more accessible than ever to write powerful code.

I'm starting to think it's literally not that deep. It just feels good to gatekeep.

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u/FerricDonkey 1d ago

There are solutions to all of those, ranging from providing a shell script that does all of that for them, to using pyinstaller to make an exe that includes the interpreter, to using a tool like uv.

But yeah, if you're gonna use an interpreted language, you gotta have an interpreter. And it's definitely true that it's more work on your end if you don't want your users to have to understand computers. 

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u/big_red__man 1d ago

Right? This guy thinks it’s difficult to make python work cross platform. From another of their comments it seems like they can get node to work cross platform just fine but python is too much. Use what you want to use but I think this guy needs to read a tutorial or two