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It’s kind of crazy how problematic pip is, though. There are enormous ecosystems like conda, poetry, arguably Docker all built around “pip not working right.”
I see so many people want to install vllm or something with like a 95% crash and burn rate if they aren’t already proficient with Docker, complete with the spare disk space to basically ship a whole other machine.
Meanwhile, massively complex Rust or Go or whatever packages… just work. With the native tooling, for me.
To be clear, I like Python, and I believe many issues can be smoothed with time (like improving its JIT and maybe encouraging more typing in codebases). But pip and its ecosystem are forever cursed.
I'm glad it's not just me lol every so often I'll think "I haven't done a python project in a while I'll try FastAPI" or something and I have so many issues just getting the env set up.
It's so ridiculous that many projects don't even support pip+venv (much less system python packages. shivers). They literally check if that's what you're trying and pre-emptively fail.
Some projects become impossible to run in any combination because some dependency (looking at you, sentencepiece) no longer works outside a narrow set of circumstances, unless you hand build some obscure github PR, disable all the dependency checks and cross your fingers and hope the wheel builds.
And I'm sorry, but I don't have 200GB of space, tons of spare RAM, and an intricate docker passthrough setup for every random python project. I just have like four different 3rd party managers (conda/mamba, uv, poetry... what's the other one? Ugh)