> E.g. installing gnome, kde or openoffice requires to download hundreds of megabytes of binaries and everyone is okay with that
Come on. Gnome and KDE are not equivalent of a node project, they're an equivalent of a browser (or at least browser chrome). And OpenOffice does quite a lot more than pretty much any Node project out there.
That depends on where you draw the line. If gnome is not gtk/glib, and if kde is not qt, then it is apples to an orange. If they are, then your comparison is correct.
I mean, making chrome is not a big issue if you’ve got yourself webkit/blink/presto/etc. it is a regular program, pretty stupid one, if you think its ui out of box.
Come on. Gnome and KDE are not equivalent of a node project, they're an equivalent of a browser (or at least browser chrome). And OpenOffice does quite a lot more than pretty much any Node project out there.