I agree with your conclusion to not write cli tools in Javascript. However, packaging node in a binary is pretty much what electron does today, albeit with a G

I agree with your conclusion to not write cli tools in Javascript. However, packaging node in a binary is pretty much what electron does today, albeit with a GUI. Regardless, it's not a problem I wish to spend any effort to solve since it's not my problem and I've (we've) already dismissed the premise (writing CLI tools in js) lol.