[Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?

[Richard Pieri]

On 2/13/2018 4:35 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> The binary for a modern-day IRC-type program (Slack) is over 80MB. Sure, 
> the original IRC didn't have pictures. But 80MB!? I have an internet 
> radio program (Tunein Radio) that has an install of 65MB.

Slack isn't a chat program. It's a web browser running a chat program
written in JavaScript. Which does punctuate your point: "hello world" as
a JavaScript application packaged with a web browser to run it.

-- 
Rich P.