I'm a bit saddened by how the #javascript #nodejs ecosystem is just like #java and #csharp, in that their package managers only ship the compiled form of the software, with no common way to build things from source without depending on more binary modules.
I've been trying to package "copyparty", and finding out how it has a precompiled "hash-wasm" module, and rebuilding it depends on typescript, rollup, and their hundreds of dependencies which may or may not contain more wasm, who knows?
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