Thats because PKG is including the Node runtime in the binaries, this way users don't have to install Node itself to run them. I'm using it myself and besides

Thats because PKG is including the Node runtime in the binaries, this way users don't have to install Node itself to run them. I'm using it myself and besides the fat binaries and the fact that you have to write Javascript, it is really good. (Working on replacing this daemon with Go ASAP) Edit: just read your last line, I'm kinda stating the obvious here.