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by charrondev 883 days ago
This 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.