[vorbote]

Hmm... There is a basic misuse of terms here. The author uses the term "distributing applications" but he is actually talking about application deployment. Oh well, language evolves and most of the times becomes murkier.

But I do agree. There is a in inherent higher barrier of entry when you force your users to install third-party libraries or even your deliverable from an outside ("fourth-party"?) distribution source. Be it ruby gems, CPAN, Pypy, cabal, whatever.

[nakkiel]

I was also expecting to see a program running on multiple computers at some point until I realised the article is actually not news-worthy.

[sacado2]

Or "go get" ;)