But it's not that simple, for an example I have older personal projects as well which I'm unable to run without doing considerable changes to the code after moving to M1 chip.

Just because I'm unable to run older versions of node and thus unable to run some of the dependencies and thus need to update the dependencies and then the code etcetc.

Yes, I could use docker and containers... Yes, I could use Rosetta...

But it doesn't run natively like it did before.

But bash still works...

Exactly. Dependency hell is easy to avoid by avoiding dependencies. Modern JS with modules and classes is really good for simple projects, esp. prototypes that don't have to work everywhere. No framework, no special utilities that all have their quirks. And no packaging either. Much, much simpler this way.

This comment here is exactly the problem with JS people. If you are making a big thing out of learning(!) cmd(!!!) then you shouldn't be working in software development, period. 7 years is a flex only in a JS world. As others mentioned, try 35.

My scripts in ksh from 25 years ago still work.

because js should never be the first choice in any case...

To avoid a rm -rf / ?