@wim_v12e I'm going to risk inviting ridicule but in my experience, the JavaScript dev/packaging experience is much better than my experience with C++. Even npm packages packages that wrap big C/C++ libraries (SQLite, LevelDB, libsodium) inevitably just plain work.

I think the "problem" with modern JavaScript ecosystem (gulp, webpack, rollup, browserify, babel) is orthogonal to command-line bullshittery, or at least has enough of a different flavor that I think it's qualitatively different.