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Depends on the website. For my personal blog it is the most amazing thing. For a web application it is the most annoying thing.

I am not familiar with Go, but if the package manager doesn't allow for arbitrary script to run(cough NPM cough) I reckon it's fine.

Stolen from a reddit post

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macOS(and other OSes in Apple ecosystem like iOS) currently uses XNU kernel which is hybrid kernel

Hybrid kernel combine both a monolithic kernel and micro kernel

In macOS Mach is micro kernel and Darwin is monolithic kernel

brew's Python installation on MacOS as are Debian's and Ubuntu's are _extremely_ brittle

I've been using python installed using homebrew and haven't found any issues. In homebrew you can install a specific python version like python@3.11 and using venvs avoids most of the issue (I think you can't install packages outside of a venv in python 3.12 or higher).