When it comes to package managers, as you noted, the situation is even more ironic, as nicely depicted in https://xkcd.com/1987/.
>>> from __future__ import braces
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance $ LC_ALL=C NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/release-13.10.tar.gz nix-shell -p python26 --run 'python -c "from __future__ import braces"'
File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chanceEarly versions of go didn’t solve things well, but go has had this fixed for a long time now. Any arguments about packaging issues are likely related to older out of date problems people had.
The only real problem people have these days is around private non open source packages. You can do it, but you need to learn how to set environment variables.