[nailer]

Shit show? It's a dependency manager. It's no different to any other dependency manager, like RPM or dpkg. It has way more stuff in it's repos than any previous dependency manager, which is good, because programmers don't have to constantly rewrite the wheel. I hope for something like that has the scale of npm on other languages in future.

[askyourmother]

Npm is awesome. When I want poorly thought out single line functions disguised as modules, with dependency chains a mile long, is it my go-to tool.

After all, why have a simple left-pad function, when I have lots and lots of modules, just to achieve the same result?

[nailer]

A simple left pad function is a module. One is simply a container for the other. It honestly sounds like you haven't used npm.