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I still like node for writing utility CLIs as well, which I find myself doing A LOT these days. To be totally fair, that's mainly because of the excellent featu

by jdc0589 11y ago

I still like node for writing utility CLIs as well, which I find myself doing A LOT these days. To be totally fair, that's mainly because of the excellent feature rich CLI modules out there (yargs, commander, etc...); but, I've found I want my CLI utilities to be in an interpreted language, and node just fits the bill pretty well for that.

creshal 11y ago
But why? It's a deployment nightmare to keep node updated on servers and laptops and desktops that will never, ever use node to server server-side JS, why do I need it and NPM and the whole upgrade nightmare it implies to run a random CLI utility?