So I’m no expert, but I have been a hobbyist C and Rust dev for a while now, and I’ve installed tons of programs from GitHub and whatnot that required manual compilation or other hoops to jump through, but I am constantly befuddled installing python apps. They seem to always need a very specific (often outdated) version of python, require a bunch of venv nonsense, googling gives tons of outdated info that no longer works, and generally seem incredibly not portable. As someone who doesn’t work in python, it seems more obtuse than any other language’s ecosystem. Why is it like this?
Uv and pip do the same thing, uv is just faster.
Hatch has the same role as Poetry or tox: managing environments for you.
Applications should be packaged properly, in a self contained installer for exactly this demographic. It’s not Python’s fault that this isn’t common practice.