Hi there, I'm a Data Infrastructure Engineer at a startup pharma company called Empirico! My team helps try to improve development workflows and tooling for data scientists / engineers and bioinformaticians. Our scientists often have use cases for creating python analyses with different environment requirements, and we've been struggling to figure out how to manage these in an efficient manner. We really like the monorepo approach, but it's obvious that this could get really hairy really fast without some advanced tooling, so I'm looking to Pants to help manage some of that complexity. I've never really used a build tool extensively though, so I expect to be asking a lot of beginner questions. Pants seems very powerful

You're definitely in the right place, then! Feel free to ask as many questions as you need. We welcome thoughtful questions, feedback, suggestions, and pull requests as contributions that help the project keep getting better.

Thanks @busy-vase-39202! Looking forward to learning more, this is definitely a whole new skillset for me and I'm excited to build it up with Pants!

The website's Resource Hub page, and the blog, have a lot of supplemental material that's worth exploring. I wouldn't suggest reading all of it, but if there's a topic in particular that you'd appreciate more big picture perspective on, those are the good places.

Thanks for the warm welcome @busy-vase-39202. I'm here after listening to Benjy on real python and liking the sound of pants. I'm shiny and new to Python software dev, and fairly new to any sort of dev. I've been learning in javascript/typescript since last spring and I'm looking at python now as I'm a molecular biologist by training and it seems everyone wants python.

Interesting background you have! By the way, @worried-painter-31382 has been working on adding JS/TS support. So if your projects use a combination of that and Python, that's something to look forward to.