In a world where political systems collapse, alliances wobble, and everything seems to be on fire, one would at least hope the developer tools might offer a shred of stability.
They don’t.
I’ve worked with many ecosystems in my developer life. The one that has devoured the most of my sanity? Node. The idea is decent, no complaints there – but the sheer amount of time I’ve sacrificed just to get a dev stack breathing borders on ritual self-harm.
Dependencies that loathe each other, transitive nightmares, versions that refuse to coexist – the chaos is biblical. Running npm install feels less like software engineering and more like rolling dice in front of an indifferent god of dependencies. Sometimes it works. Most of the time: head → desk.
And then there’s Python. Honestly, it’s worse. Setting up environments isn’t development, it’s a horror show. Each setup feels like a new boss battle in a game nobody wanted to play. Pipenv, virtualenv, Poetry – all cheerful names, all equal pain.
These days I mostly write Go. And frankly, I’m not going back. No virtualenvs, no Gradle, no cathedral of node_modules. Just go build, and it runs.
Sure, Go has its quirks – private repos that act like they’ve never met you, or go mod tidy deciding to improvise like a drunken jazz band. But that’s all manageable. Nothing requiring daily therapy.
I like Go. The language. The ecosystem. The peace.