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You are not the only one. But not because of Node (which is not that big) but because of Electron.

That said, the big issue is that we don't (yet) get to share Electron installs. If all desktop applications had to bundle all their dependencies, including what the OS already provides to them, they would be just as big.

Electron apps themselves aren't that big. Even Atom.

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Electron really should be treated like `node` and be a dependency. Of course you could still package your apps with Electron, and you can do that with node too (if you wanted to), still nobody distributes node applications like that.

Actually, I tried fixing that problem with `asv`: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244073

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