> while everyone claims node's dependencies are hell, I love the choice available (although over time, it's tiring).

So... at one place I work, we use nodejs. There are so many modules added using so many files, that we ended up not being able to use our packaged application - extracting the package into a holding dir before moving into place meant that we ran out of inodes on the filesystem (stock 8GB ubuntu ext4 cloud image)! The filesystem could not hold two copies of our app, basically, due to inode exhaustion. The easy workaround was "increase the size of the disk", which seems silly given it's 80% free space.

This has apparently been fixed in recent times with flatter npm structures, but watching the nodejs community run into every single packaging roadblock that has been solved before is just disheartening.