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1. Emacsen (emacsen@emacsen.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 23:10:57 CEST Emacsen

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   • Abbie Normal

   @AbbieNormal

   I also feel bad for someone just starting out because indeed Poetry is new and experienced Pythonistas won't have heard of it!

   I'd probably teach it to start with and tell someone "Don't worry about pip and setup.py and virtualenv"- the problem is that they're going to encounter mention of those tools everywhere because the language is >20 years old and these tools are 10-15 years old...

   Cruft is hard to get rid of.

   • Emacsen (emacsen@emacsen.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Sep-2021 23:10:58 CEST Emacsen

     • Abbie Normal

     After reading someone's complaints about getting into Python (maybe @AbbieNormal ) I decided to check out Poetry. I expected to hate it, but actually, it's been really nice so far.

     I felt like I had more control when I used pip + pip-compile + virtualenv + setup.py but ultimately that was a lot of housekeeping and replicated work.

     I don't think I'll be going back to the old way any time soon without a *very* compelling reason.