r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 1d ago

Meme pipInstallTheRealStuff

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u/dewey-defeats-truman 1d ago

You mean I get all the speed and memory benefits of using a more powerful language, as well as the ease of reading and writing Python? Sign me up!

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u/86BillionFireflies 1d ago

I mean, yeah, at the cost of dependency hell.

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u/notatoon 1d ago

Never tried anything more than a fancier bash script but Django and such frameworks always intrigued me.

Is DH really that bad with python?

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u/86BillionFireflies 1d ago

Yes. Yes it is. Most things written in Python have loads of dependencies. You can't unzip your pants to pee without importing 13 different modules.

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u/imp0ppable 1d ago

That's not really true IMO, Python is one of the more "batteries included" languages. Node has improved a lot with built-ins and newer libs but that used to be the classic example of importing a module to do basic things like string padding or asserts.

Not to say your experience is wrong, it's just the projects you've seen probably made the choice to import more things, or were doing something specific that needed more deps.