A not unreasonable call out at all. The multi-layers of pip, setuptools, easy_install, virtualenv stuff made me very sad at the time. Nodejs was such a relief a

A not unreasonable call out at all. The multi-layers of pip, setuptools, easy_install, virtualenv stuff made me very sad at the time. Nodejs was such a relief at the time. My understanding is recently Python docs have started to encorporate a little more guidance on handling dependencies in virtualenvs, and some specific suggestions & write up about tools. Which is great. I think your right that JS probably has a lot more build/compiling/lifting machinery, & is much more confusing. To be fair, it also has a much harder job (since the build-target is only sometimes the local machine).