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How many Linux/Mac devs know that? We live in a left-pad world, of course people will install a package to get a simple job done.
by ARandomerDude 3y ago
How many Linux/Mac devs know that? We live in a left-pad world, of course people will install a package to get a simple job done.
- charrondev 3y agoThis is mostly useful to developers that don’t develop on windows. Typically server side and browser based JavaScript programs are deployed on Linux systems in production. Today if I want to reliably automate some scripting I do NOT use shell scripting because it makes a bunch of implicit dependencies on existing system. Instead I write these utility scripts in either JavaScript or PHP depending on the project and this seems to give JavaScript a slightly nicer consistent interface to perform basic functionality, built directly into the runtime.