There are not enough good symbols trivially typed on a keyboard to sacrifice half of them to dead keys. Either the dead key or the programming symbol can be mapped to a key combination.

Chances are 677,634 of those will be broken next week though :-P

The problem with package managers is that they encourage piling on dependencies and creating deep (and thus fragile and often hard to reason about) dependency trees.

I loathe having to install anything more complicated than simple scripts[0] based on Python because unless the developer constantly chases after all their dependencies to keep them in working order, i'll be the one who will have to do that when something inevitably breaks (assuming it wasn't already broken the time i decided to try it - which is sadly something i encountered more than a few times). And once the developer moves on, the bitrot spreads alarmingly fast.

[0] and even that isn't reliable if the scripts rely on more than whatever comes preinstalled with Python