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"... so I connected my laptop to the internet, searched github, and within minutes I found several great implementations" ;)

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"...the majority of them in node.js, so now I need to install 500MB of dependencies to play a simple game of Tetris."

"... I then proceeded to rip out dependencies until I no longer needed to. I put up another one called Tetris-Lite. After a quick search I found that already existed."

Check out https://github.com/mafintosh/tetris . This is a Node.js based Tetris clone, with only 46KB of dependencies.

Please provide an example of a Node.js project which downloads 500MB of deps.

One? LOL, here are some that I know require ~600MB of dependencies:

- http://rungoterminal.com/

- https://github.com/shockone/black-screen

- https://github.com/nylas/N1

And there are hundreds of them, specially if they require Babel which by itself requires a significant amount of disk space, but since you were lazy to find these projects by yourself, I will be lazy too and just list three of them, I will leave the rest to your imagination.

snap!

"so I looked for python versions, but there were only versions of python 2.7 and my PC has installed python 3.0; after downgrading I realized this version uses the win32api, which doesn't exist in my Mac. After much frustration I went on the internet to ramble about how bad is nodeJS and JavaScript fatigue"

"... so, keeping mind that this is 1996, I started to connect my Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro to the dial-up internet. After the fax screech, and only within a few hours, I found several great shareware implementations on usenet." ;)

Yeah "shareware" on usenet. People were sharing "shareware".

GitHub in 1996? Ha.

Surely tsx-11 or sunsite would have something, right?

or funet, or wuarchive

Aminet, friends. Aminet.

LOL touché !

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