[clintonb11]

I agree. PIP in python is great, but has some extra overhead and difficulty with it, like having to setup virtual environments for each project. NPM by default installs to the local project only and with a quick --save will put it in package.json dependencies (similar to requirements.txt with pip). Node package management is awesome because it is so simple.

[rhelmer]

Virtual environments are optional though, right? You could have one big virtualenv for all projects, or simply install things into the system path (although I wouldn't recommend either)