&gt; as it is hands down the best dependency manager available from any language<p>Why? You don&#x27;t back that statement up with anything. What makes it better than `pip`?<p>&gt; node isn&#x27;t even close, since you need a c++ compiler to actually get quite a few packages<p>Well if the packages contain C&#x2F;C++ modules and don&#x27;t distribute binaries... (which a lot do). In Python land packages with a C++ module normally have a pure-python fallback anyway.