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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by Dylan16807 on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:57AM (#25080453)
Most of the steps you're listing take only a few seconds. They're talking about the actual management, not how long it takes you to type . venv/bin/activate
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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by JAlexoid on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:15PM (#25086923)
A few seconds here and a few seconds there - it's death by a thousand papercuts.

There's no community consensus - that keeps Python from advancing to where it needs to be.

I said it once and I'll say it again - Python lacks mature tooling.

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Re:Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft by Dylan16807 on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:35PM (#25087148)
You can't have death by a thousand papercuts when there are exactly three delay-papercuts adjacent to a step that takes a significant amount of time.

There are contexts where little delays matter, and you didn't pick one of those.

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