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by cdubzzz 2052 days ago
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.
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Of course, but my point is that these kind of tools are of general interest, and most programmers are not web developers.
Javascript is a general interest language imo.