[brundolf]

I believe pip and conda already support native modules. I'm not saying it was easy to get there, but it's a solved problem at this point. The problem that still needs to be solved is project-scoped dependencies vs system-scoped dependencies. Virtual envs are a hacky workaround that causes all sorts of problems. I'm convinced Python has been one of the major drivers of Docker's adoption, because any given module is concerned with the entire system.