[enriquto]

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]

I 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]

Of course, but my point is that these kind of tools are of general interest, and most programmers are not web developers.

[benmller313]

Javascript is a general interest language imo.

[maple3142]

I think one of the benefit of using js to write cli tool is that you can install them very easily on Windows.