Comment by raverbashing

> Go apps are generally pretty clean statically-linked,

I know, that's why I put it as an example (of something that doesn't need docker)

> and a fragile and persnickety toolchain that will happily leave dirty stuff in your filesystem and/or your PATH

Docker existing shouldn't be an excuse for npm behaving like this ;)

But I agree, for deployment it is good. But you can still run npm projects without it