> What do you think is the essential difference between a 'script' and a 'program'? I never said "program". I contrasted a script vs. a "binary" by which I mea

> What do you think is the essential difference between a 'script' and a 'program'? I never said "program". I contrasted a script vs. a "binary" by which I meant a compiled executable. What I meant to highlight was the difference between the JS toolchain which is delivered as an artifact which needs an installed JS interpreter to evaluate. I've had issues my node/npm version to what the script expects, as well as managing different expectations by different scripts. In contrast, executables which are compiled for your architecture in advance and can be executed on their own without further dependencies are much simpler to use. Just download and run. Yes, there's static vs dynamic linking, but I mean to highlight how nice the (typical) Go workflow is which tends to statically include everything, moreso than rust, but rust isn't far behind.