Web browsers have the best software distribution story. You type a natural language query about what you want, click and it installs and runs the latest version of everything you need, usually in less than a second.
First, there is no namespace in JS. Secondly, the import instruction standard is not implemented everywhere, so we need a bundler. First, the network makes everything harder. And finally, JS has virtually no stdlib.
Add to that that we we are stuck in npm land, with acute lefpadite, packages breaking the public API every sunday, and a mad hatter packager like webpack as our lord and savior, and you have a recipe for terrible times.
