the immediate blocker when trying to run this Python project is that a native package deep within its dependency graph won’t compile without gcc-12 even though gcc 15 was released in August last year
that’s not even targeting gcc 14 which was released in 2024
and to hardcode this expectation without a Dockerfile or some Python-native mechanism to pull in a specific version of a C/Cxx compiler …
🐍 🤡
hehe, this exact same problem but in Node.js drove me towards Rust, as well 🦀
there are widely-used Rust crates that wrap C/C++ code and there are the …-sys crates that expose bindings for dynamically-linked dependencies, but i’ve never encountered one that needed a specifically-ancient version of GCC