> I have had wanted to access the filesystem via JavaScript, just as I do via ruby or python There are some (limited) ways to do so now: https://developer.mozi

> I have had wanted to access the filesystem via JavaScript, just as I do via ruby or python There are some (limited) ways to do so now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System... As for (1) vs (2), it’s not really an issue of JavaScript at all. The main question is, do you want to build something that runs in a browser? If you’re building a web app, you’ll have to use the sandboxed APIs (and probably JavaScript). If you don’t care about the runtime, yeah, you can use Node or Bun or Deno (or use another language altogether).