I'd say NPM took off because it was a package manager for a language that barely has a standard library. Framed that way, every new node dev learns how to publi

I'd say NPM took off because it was a package manager for a language that barely has a standard library. Framed that way, every new node dev learns how to publish 6 lines of junk to npm.. i guess you could call that a network effect! Nuget is not terrible, its not as simple as npm but not far off. Anything that uses native code is painful, but then so is node-gyp..