Spack has, to some degree, a compromise between the language and system package management sides of things. Languages in Spack can specify how their extensions should be activated/deactivated within the installation, and modules like numpy can ‘extend’ the language packages. So, you can plug and play with different python modules. I haven’t looked at how Go does language extensions, but it would be interesting to see if this can be mapped to Go, Lua, etc.

[2] http://software.llnl.gov/spack/basic_usage.html#extensions-p...

[3] http://software.llnl.gov/spack/packaging_guide.html#extensio...