There was bowery.io, they even raised money, they seemingly disappeared [1]. There is also the nix-shell tool from Nix [2] which work great for python, haskell

There was bowery.io, they even raised money, they seemingly disappeared [1]. There is also the nix-shell tool from Nix [2] which work great for python, haskell and golang (at least on Linux) but can get very hairy for node and ruby (not only Nix's fault). I am also working on Pipez [3], which tries to solve a similar problem for frontend development. [1] http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/21/bowery-io-wants-to-configure-your-web-developers-work-environment-in-30-seconds/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/10/21/bowery-io-wants-to-configu... [2] http://nixos.org/ http://nixos.org/ [3] http://pipez.io/blog/1-tool-hell.html http://pipez.io/blog/1-tool-hell.html