[physicsguy]

Pypi doesn't have any issue distributing binaries either these days? The issue is (a) diversity of CPU/GPU microarchitectures inc. CUDA (b) diversity of OS-es.

I've never had to compile a native Node library on a POWER9 GPU cluster, but I have had to compile Python ones.

[cyberax]

And the JS world has ESM modules, CommonJS, various polyfills for compatibility, and other quirks that need to be accommodated by the package manager. With native code compilation affected by these settings.

Sorry, but Python is really not that unique.