As someone who has migrated old ASP/silverlight projects and BHOs... seriously, this is complete bullshit.

This depends highly on what dependencies are in your C# solution.

Same for his node project. If he'd stuck with dependencies that are just plain js - I'd bet money his project would have installed & built just fine.

By the time you're hitting the native addon apis and doing things like compiling python and C/C++ code... you're going to feel all the pains of those ecosystems too.