Those ideas are definitely part of what I want to incorporate into 'something' and build on it.
Would be interested in hearing what his use case is for building this, if you can?
You should be able to run it without node, but node is used for wrangling javascript dependencies (building it, effectively).
ill have a look into it and see the techniques hes using here but it seems like a similair (although applied) problem domain to what im looking at.
Im looking at explaining / communicating complex problems, particularly developing software in enterprises with an already complex and not-well-understood environment.