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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by thesuperbigfrog on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @07:51PM (#37315754)
Python is a victim of its own success and versatility.

It has become a better "glue code to solve your problem" than many other solutions and so people want to use it everywhere for everything.

It gets packaged in many different ways because it gets used in many different ways for many different purposes.

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Re:Ask HN: Why Did Python Win? by bluGill on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @08:53PM (#37316247)
Packaging is a difficult problem and all attempts to simplify things fail to understand how complex the problem is and so fail in some way. (Attempts like .deb do okay by only focusing on a subset of the problem)
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