I understand this is meant as caricature, but for doing local development tools like mise or asdf are really something I've never looked back from. For containers it's either versioned Docker image or compile yourself.
It seems every project out there uses a different package manager, a different version of python, a different config file to set all of that up.
Most of the time, I just have a random .py file somewhere. Sometimes it's a full project that I can look at and find out what package manager it's using. Sometimes it has instructions, most of the time not. _That's_ the situation I struggle with.
Do I just run ./script.py? python script.py? python3 script.py? python3.12 script.py? When inevitably I miss some dependencies, do I just pip install? python pip install? pipx install?
As a developer I'm sure that you just set it up and forget about it. And once things work, they probably keep working for you. But man, it really reflects negatively upon Python itself for me. I don't hate the language, but I sure hate the experience.
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script # /// script # requires-python = ">=3.12" # dependencies = [ # "ffmpeg-normalize", # ] # ///
Also I mean I understand mise but I personally just prefer using uv for python and bun for typescript both of which can run any version of python/ (node compliant?)
I still like the project though, but I tried to install elixir using it and it was a mess man.