[mschuster91]

> I'd think that the user base of Debian would be larger than of some of the other distros listed (edit: changed wording here) there, so ...what up? why?

Debian packaging is notoriously difficult and has a very steep learning curve if you want to do it "the right way" aka using Debian's arcane collection of debhelper Perl scripts.

On top of that, there was/is/IDK a lengthy period of debate in Debian on how to deal with third party library managers in general (PHP Composer and especially NodeJS started the debate), which scared people off for good.