I use a number of operating systems/distributions/package managers, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Most can more or less build most stuff in a way that you can run infrastructure on as long as you're not in a nasty cross-platform setting (MacOS development and Linux deployment comes to mind).
Off the top of my head I can't think of any language other than Python that manages to be a constant and persistent cavalcade of self-inflicted environment and dependency chemical fires on absolutely every single one of them. Pointing this out usually generates a bunch of "pipenv/poetry/uv/whatever works fine for me", and for those folks I am very happy that they don't deal with heavily native extension-backed requirements. Mazel tov.
Pointing this out usually generates a bunch of "pipenv/poetry/uv/whatever works fine for me",
I had to use bundler (Ruby) and got some non-descript “missing dev dependencies”. After installing “dev dependencies” (?) for my Linux distro it still didn’t work. The first StackOverflow answer (for Windows) had over a dozen answers with “this worked for me on macOS”. No logic to it, just a random of assortment of commands that happened to work.
At that point I decided to use devbox. And give up if that didn’t work (but it did).
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I use a number of operating systems/distributions/package managers, and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Most can more or less build most stuff in a way that you can run infrastructure on as long as you're not in a nasty cross-platform setting (MacOS development and Linux deployment comes to mind).
Off the top of my head I can't think of any language other than Python that manages to be a constant and persistent cavalcade of self-inflicted environment and dependency chemical fires on absolutely every single one of them. Pointing this out usually generates a bunch of "pipenv/poetry/uv/whatever works fine for me", and for those folks I am very happy that they don't deal with heavily native extension-backed requirements. Mazel tov.
It's a meme: https://xkcd.com/1987/
I had to use bundler (Ruby) and got some non-descript “missing dev dependencies”. After installing “dev dependencies” (?) for my Linux distro it still didn’t work. The first StackOverflow answer (for Windows) had over a dozen answers with “this worked for me on macOS”. No logic to it, just a random of assortment of commands that happened to work.
At that point I decided to use devbox. And give up if that didn’t work (but it did).