You’re right it was annoying, but there’s ways around that today. One is the ESBuild path where they bundle the pre-built binaries for each platform so you don

You’re right it was annoying, but there’s ways around that today. One is the ESBuild path where they bundle the pre-built binaries for each platform so you don’t need to do any building/node-gyp on your machine (only the binary for your platform is downloaded, and because it’s via npm it shouldn’t hit any proxy issues, unlike gyp’s postInstall mess). The other is to compile down to WASM as the sibling mentioned.