node is used in a lot of the examples (because it's popular) but mise is written in rust and certainly doesn't require node

Unrelated, but triggered by the remark: I can’t wait to meet the person on HN who has the take of “if it’s not in COBOL, I won’t touch it”. I could suggest a lisp, but I think those folks are actually somewhat plentifully here?

What gave you the idea that it needs Node?

What are you talking about? You don't need to install node for this. It's a self-contained rust binary.

You don't have to install node, or Python. mise is written in rust and distributed as a binary.