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Pipenv only targets applications; Poetry targets both applications and libraries. Pipenv has quite some drama behind it that I do not want to get into; in contrast, Poetry's development has been quite professional. Pipenv enjoys better tool support, e.g. it is recognized and supported by VS Code; but Poetry does not have the same level of support.


I don't know anything about pipenv drama, so by morbid curiosity I looked for it and this is the first thing I found:

https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/2228

This is one of the most ridiculous issues I've read. If the rest of the "drama" is like that, then eh.


The drama was surrounding false advertising so to speak. Pipenv promised a lot but did not quite deliver, much like the earlier days of MongoDB. But more importantly, it pretended or at least heavily implied it was an official PSF-affiliated project, when it was not. How that claim was substantiated was also subject to drama.


It also had no releases for over a year, even though the master branch was getting frequent updates and the performance of the last release was atrocious (and I'm not sure if it has improved much).

I did like the emojis in the logs though.


FWIW here's VSCode's issue for supporting Poetry[1] and here's their plan to support it[2]:

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/8372

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/wiki/Support-poet...




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