My primary exposure to python is when it is failing in some way, often when I wouldn't have even known python would be involved (like trying to install something with npm or apt).
I'm sure this is less of an issue when you work with it every day and are familiar with it, but I always dread seeing python in the requirements for something because it means the odds of it "just working" on a random system are probably not great. Anybody else have this experience?
Yes, but I also had that very same experience with Perl, Ruby, Tcl, and Java during their peak heights of popularity, that they were pervasive and problematic. I feel the landscape of operating systems architectures were much more diverse, and the frequency of software releases and permutations of version combinations in the layers is larger than ever before.
I'm sure this is less of an issue when you work with it every day and are familiar with it, but I always dread seeing python in the requirements for something because it means the odds of it "just working" on a random system are probably not great. Anybody else have this experience?