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What's the point of writing this simple tool in js? I'd like to use it but I don't have npm everywhere (and I don't want to grab a huge tree of dependencies ju
by enriquto 6y ago
What's the point of writing this simple tool in js? I'd like to use it but I don't have npm everywhere (and I don't want to grab a huge tree of dependencies just for editing a couple of lines on a text file...)
- cdubzzz 6y agoI suspect it was written in JS because that was the author’s language of choice. There are lots of ways to manage git identities and this seems like a decent utility for web devs who already have node installed and don’t care to manually edit config files.
- enriquto 6y agoOf course, but my point is that these kind of tools are of general interest, and most programmers are not web developers.
- benmller313 6y agoJavascript is a general interest language imo.
- maple3142 6y agoI think one of the benefit of using js to write cli tool is that you can install them very easily on Windows.