Microsoft Visual Studio, for example, has a GUI for Python’s pip package-management system, ... Python packages, even as managed with Conda, don’t always play nice with each other.

Python always looks like “ALMOST) INSTANTLY” in carefully selected bookworm examples. But when you try to implement something useful in real world it became ugly after first 200 lines of code.

Last time, I assembled a Python object representing a Rigol oscilloscope. Manipulating the object communicates with the scope over the network. But my original goal was to build a little GUI window… ...