14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Pipenv first-hand: 1 endorse it, 8 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“Once you've locked the appropriate versions, you just do pipenv sync in prod like I said.”
endorse · production · nurettin · 2024-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used pipenv, but that broke very often, so we moved to Poetry”
regret · production · brabel · 2022-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using pipenv for quite some time and it works great but locking speed has been problematic”
mixed · personal · fb03 · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I switched half of our projects to Pipenv. However, I found that it struggled to resolve dependencies.”
regret · production · Humphrey · 2020-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we switched from pipenv ~6 months ago, had not had to worry about package/env related stuff since then, "just works".”
regret · production · kamyarg · 2020-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's been too buggy and unpredictably slow with installs.”
regret · personal · hobofan · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with Pipenv many times faced issues that the project worked with requirements.txt but not in Pipenv.”
regret · production · dragonsh · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Recently I started using Pipenv and suddenly I've been having horrific issues with python”
regret · personal · grumps · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use pipenv in production and testing to simplify deployment on systems that don't natively support python 3.6+.”
regret · production · hyperion2010 · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“pipenv works well for a simple flask application because I don't ask much of it... my only gripe”
mixed · personal · moonsun · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After trying to replace pip with Pipenv, we had to stop. The dependency resolution time for 20 declared dependencies takes well over 5 minutes.”
regret · production · cik · 2018-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's honestly my biggest gripe with pipenv: which command is best for a CI run?”
mixed · production · ben509 · 2018-07-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“trying to compare it with pipenv(which we switched from).”
neutral · production · kamyarg · 2021-01-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using pipenv on my local machine but then switched to virtualenv in my ec2 deployments”
neutral · personal · wuliwong · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?