I was a full time Python developer for years and can attest that virtualenv + ... easy_install? pip? wat?! scared off a lot of marginal developers. It's a good

I was a full time Python developer for years and can attest that virtualenv + ... easy_install? pip? wat?! scared off a lot of marginal developers. It's a good cautionary tale for any language/platform that wants to claim Ease of Use and Low Barrier to Entry (as it seems both Python and Ruby do). Hopefully Python 3.4 bundling virtualenv and pip will ease the pain, but it's still a shame these otherwise easy to use scripting languages ended up with such complex sandboxing mechanisms for even trivial use cases (e.g.: my simple script has 1 third party dependency).