[pmurach]

Many systems come preinstalled with Ruby. Bundler is a very elegant and simple solution - I don't think it is hostile. Quite often the tools that we build are written by developers for developers or system administrators. For example Puppet or Chef. In my experience, these are people how don't mind running couple commands to get started. If anything I have heard people say really positive things on how easy and pain free installation is. Of course, if you want to write portable code that works on any system then Go is a very wise solution.