I think the barrier to entry in the problem domain for C++ is much higher than something like nodejs. Installing dependencies is the least of one’s worries there.

Also, how many dependencies are we talking about? Node apps have a million dependencies for, I think, stupid simple stuff that should just be reinvented in a given codebase. In a C++ app too many dependencies invites incompatible stylistic choices which I think will turn to a Frankenstein codebase.

In Go this isn’t a problem because of “go fmt” plus a simple language at its core.