This is not intending to diminish your point because I agree with you, but you can in fact make a fat binary with Node: https://github.com/nexe/nexe https://git

This is not intending to diminish your point because I agree with you, but you can in fact make a fat binary with Node: https://github.com/nexe/nexe https://github.com/nexe/nexe I have used it when I cannot guarantee to have Node.js installed on location I am deploying app to. It works pretty well, but the C compilation of all the Node bindings took quite awhile when I was using it (about 2 years ago). I think a build of a small project took around 10 minutes at the time.