> The success of python is due to not needing a broader ecosystem for A LOT of things.

I honestly think that was a coincidence. Perl and Ruby had other disadvantages, Python won despite having bad package management and a bloated standard library, not because of it.

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procaryote 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The bloated standard library is the only reason I kept using python in spite of the packaging nightmare. I can do most things with no dependencies, or with one dependency I need over and over like matplotlib

If python had been lean and needed packages to do anything useful, while still having a packaging nightmare, it would have been unusable

	▲	lmm an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well, sure, but equally I think there would have been a lot more effort to fix the packaging nightmare if it had been more urgent.

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LtWorf 9 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The bloated standard library is the reason why you can send around a single .py file to others and they can execute it instantly.

Most of the python users are not able nor aware of venv, uv, pip and all of that.

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rjzzleep 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's because Ruby captured the web market and Python everything else, and I get everything is more timeless than a single segment.