[kybernetikos]

There are quite a few packages in npm that require native compilation of some part of their system during install. These usually fail horribly on windows without spending a lot of time tweaking your system in ways you probably don't want to. This is in sad contrast to how well many of the other libraries just work.

I would have thought it'd be possible to emscripten compile something like tinyC, and make a C compiler you could naturally fit into the node ecosystem to build native libraries.

[pjmlp]

I see. However that is a common problem in any platform that doesn't follow the UNIX way.

I imagine node.js for IBM i or z/OS to have similar issues.

[kybernetikos]

This is almost certainly true, and if there were as many people trying to use node on those operating systems as there are on windows I expect you would see a similar number of complaints.