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It seems to me there's little reason to not just use another shell or scripting language (Python? Ruby? TCL?) You're not constrained by the browser only suppor

• nine_k 10y ago
  Ability not to install a dependency (especially something relatively sprawling, like Ruby) may be the whole point. Some even constrain the scripts to sh, so that even bash isn't a dependency and you can run on e.g. OpenWRT.
  • Scarbutt 10y ago
    For avoiding a dependency you can use Go instead of Ruby for example, I don't use Go so I don't how well will it run in something like openwrt.
    • nine_k 10y ago
      It will likely run fine, but you'll have to prepare a binary for every platform you support, while `sh` is already there.