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The big problem is that Python is used in a lot of different contexts and has too many valid ways in which people are able to build, compile, release non-Pythonic extensions in their package. Original way for packaging code was effectively an executable script which made some things easy, but other things much harder. Modern efforts are trying to limit the flexibility of the package definitions without breaking all of this legacy code. I unfairly think of Ruby as only for Ruby on Rails, so only ever dealing with the web domain.

Here is a story about the nightmare it takes to compile the Fortran code that supports much of SciPy (backbone numerical computing library with algorithms for wide swaths of disciplines) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38196412