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The tragedy of running an old Node project


You want it to just work. But it resists.

Why the heck is C++ code building so that I can install some node packages that just manage basic web files. Some Google searching and I land on a GitHub issues page for node-gyp and apparently my C++ version is below 14. Now all I’m thinking is “Please let me find this node version because I don’t want to start over with this blog site.” Then I stumble upon another GitHub issues page facing a similar C++ compile error.

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