Consider installer that doesn't require npm

[jhbrown-veradept]

It'd be great to get npm off of my dev system -- any chance elm-cli-tooling could have an installer that doesn't require npm?

[lydell]

Hi! I’ve thought a lot about that, which is why I’ve made sure that nothing relies on Node.js so everything can be re-implemented using something else. What would need to be done is:

• Someone to write the tool in some other language.
• Figure how out to install that tool in a fast, light-weight and secure way (almost a chicken and egg problem).

Personally I won’t work on this because:

• I want to focus on elm-watch and elm-safe-virtual-dom.
• When I get back to this tool, I’d rather spend time on Allow known tools to be downloaded from alternate locations through some sort of config #22 and Wrong binary downloaded for aarch64 #93, and eventually Feat request: support 0-dependency node js executables #88.
• I need npm anyway in my project, so having a small dependency-free npm package is hard to beat.