It's unfortunate that Linux and/or Linux distributions have not yet solved the problem of supporting parallel versions of dependencies. Even Node's package manager supports that. The end result is that rolling release distros break stuff often, as applications can't be tested and executed in isolation of each other. The "solution" to this is releasing everything every 6 months, when you can actually test everything together, then stop providing new versions for months.

If Linux/Linux distributions did support it, rolling release would be a lot more common. One limitation that would remain is that if you have an application that requires a single instance (e.g. a Network Manager), you couldn't have multiple instances of it running at the same time.