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pstuart on April 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: A non-magical introduction to pip and virtualenv f...

I recently learned the lesson about global packages. I thought it would be so nice to have all packages readily on hand, but now startup time is about 15 seconds of crawling the filesystem looking for files (over NFS).

Go is looking more attractive day by day.....

andybak on April 18, 2013 [–]

"It hurts"

"Well, stop doing it then..."

Jests aside - Go is appealing for many reasons but your self-inflicted pain is not necessarily one of them. ;-)

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