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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is so bad about virtual environments?

They're a solution to a self-inflicted problem. They're only "really nice and useful" if you accept that having your projects stomp all over each others' libraries and environments is normal.

If projects were self-contained from the outset then you wouldn't need an additional tool to make them so.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

thankfully Python seems to be moving away from the "activating your venv" nonsense. If you use poetry or uv, you don't necessarily need to "activate" it before running your code; though a lot of people still try to do it because of learning inertia I guess.