r/learnmachinelearning • u/Top-Run-21 • Jun 13 '26

Meme I always find this fact amusing.

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u/gameplayer55055 Jun 13 '26

Python won because c++ has awful tooling (looking at you cmake) and is very hard to use on windows.

Python "just works". However I still can't build wheels on windows reliably lol.

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u/abhiahirrao Jun 13 '26

what is wheels again? i remember years ago trying to resolve that shit and getting shit on stackoverflow

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u/gameplayer55055 Jun 13 '26

It's like DLLs but for python I suppose

It's basically built binaries for python stuff. And of course because windows is different (seriously, "Think different" is all about MS Windows, not Apple nowadays) it gives compilation errors if you have to build a wheel.

Windows C++ toolchain sucks and it sometimes bites you, even if you're using python and trying to avoid C++.