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It's not the first one addressing these problems.

Nix and ied (which borrowed from Nix) got these problems pretty much solved.

I don't understand what spoke against these approaches?

I mean okay, nix has its own language, which is probably a turnoff for JS devs, but ied?

ied didn't work on windows because of the linking strategy. many people who need to use npm use windows.

That's not 100 % accurate. Arguably symlinks are kinda weird under Windows, but that doesn't mean symlinking node_modules doesn't work (you just need admin privileges).

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of ied.)

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