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> which almost everyone already has installed, and Nope. Sorry to disappoint but I refuse to touch node with a barge-pole. Also 90% of the systems I deal with
by fao_ 9y ago
> which almost everyone already has installed, and
Nope. Sorry to disappoint but I refuse to touch node with a barge-pole. Also 90% of the systems I deal with also don't have it installed.
> whose dependencies aren’t a pain in the ass to get installed and running.
pacman -S imagemagick
sudo apt-get install imagemagick
Wow, you're right that was an utter nightmare.
- deecewan 9y agopacman -S nodejs npm Why won't you touch node? It's a super handy scripting language.
- fao_ 9y agoI already have bash, mksh, awk, sed, vi's programming language, perl, python, C, Erlang, SBCL Lisp, and GUILE Scheme if I want a "super handy scripting language". Node is extremely bulky and things written in it tend not to be well-written. Not to mention that npm is inherently insecure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16195875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16195875
- runnr_az 9y agoThat's a problem, since you're gonna have to install this functionality on 100% of your systems!