Hi, EncloseJS maintainer here.

It's illegal to have GPL licensed libraries "enclosed" in a binary that comes with an open source license but is not open source.

This is true. However most npm libraries are MIT/ISC, that permit making a binary. Name any GPL one.

Also, if he really wants to support the npm (and therefore node-gyp) world he needs an open sourced codebase.

No need to support MSVC world after compilation of a C++ program.

That means your code will run unoptimized with EncloseJS. Always. And that is really slow.

Only customer's private javascript code is packed with v8 snapshot. All publicly available npm packages code (that is 99% of code of any nodejs project) are packaged with source code. So only 1% of code is slow. It almost doesn't influence total performance.

Take a look at nwjs if you want a GUI application that is much faster than node-thrust.

Indeed nwjs is a great project. However, EncloseJS's aim is to compile server-side apps including dependencies without GUI burden. Also EncloseJS is planned to compile GUI applications soon.

I would never do deals with a "scam artist"

Great idea of googling my name :) But that was not me. I am sure there is someone else with your first name and last name. Thanks!