I agree. I want to help save python from its packaging problems because it has so much traction out there (for good reason). People in this forum might be ok jumping ship to rust or whatever but most python users are students, scientists, business types... They're not going to learn rust and I don't think we benefit from leaving them behind.

I wish there was a standard interface that tools like pip could use to express their non-python needs such that some other tool can meet those needs and then hand the baton back to pip once they are met. Poetry2nix is an example of such a collaboration. (I'm not trying to be a nix maximalist here, it's just that it's familiar).

The python community is large enough to attempt to go it alone, but many other language communities are not. I think we'd see faster language evolution if we asked less of them from a packaging perspective:

> focus on making the language great. Provide a way to package deps in that language, and use _____ to ask for everything else.

Apt and brew and snap and whatever else (docker? K8s?) could be taught to handle such requests in a non alter-your-whole-system kind of way.