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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by japanuspus on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:47AM (#26034336)
I have a hunch that in five years, the global-state package manager built into python will be a feature because we will all be working exclusively in dev-containers.

What does it matter to you if there are features in the standard library you don't use? The full python embedded distribution is only 8MB including runtime.

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by the__alchemist on Friday February 05, 2021 @02:08PM (#26039994)
I hope your hunch is wrong! I feel like containers are a symptom of situations like this Python one.
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