This will always be an issue for the node community - it’s endemic to the JavaScript shipping / speed culture and the package management philosophy.
Go is much, much better on these terms, although not perfect.
I’d venture a guess that Perl 5 is outstanding here, although it’s been a few years since I tried to run an old Perl project. CPAN was dog slow, but other than that, everything worked first try.
I’d also bet Tcl is nearly perfect on the ‘try this 10 year old repo’ test
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