For most of our big scripts at work, I've actually resorted to just running them inside a docker container, mounting my current folder. So tired of trying to get my env to match someone else's.
So true. You have to be very careful when writing python, because cool language idioms that you use (or function calls), may not have been introduced in say for example Python 3.5. So when someone runs it with a different interpreter it will not work.
Writing python scripts that not-python-knowing people could use, is an art.
Instead, I work for a company who's core was written in bash and perl, and those scripts still work today after 15 years.
That or I don’t have interesting enough dependencies :)
What is the dependency management solution for bash that it so much better than anything in Python?
Package management and a virtual env manager in one.
Python3 was a big stain because of those issues.
Python 4 could literally just be a platform shift to sort out paths, libraries, dependencies, documentation in order to try to solve all those problems.
It's just amazing how nutty things can be for tech we all depend on.
We would have never designed something that way on purpose.
Bash - as a non-expert I also feel is a bit wierd.
I almost what Computer Science God to come along and make a shell script, a clean light language like python/js, maybe something like Swift/Java, and then something like Rust but a bit easier - and they all feel a bit similar and integrate and the build tooling is fairly clean and the whole world can get along.