[Discuss] node.js and npm on Debian?

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:35:54 -0500
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> [Warning, philosophical tangent.]
> 
> The thing that strikes me is that it feels like we are doing
> something fundamentally wrong if a sensible way to write "Hello,
> World!" (or "Hello, I'm a GUI widget!") could possibly be: "Fire up a
> Linux VM.". (Or a Docker container...)

I totally agree with your philosophy.

Those who disagree will say "don't reinvent the wheel", but how many
times do you see code where the author, in need of a spoke nipple,
welded on an entire wheel instead of just using a spoke nipple?

SteveT