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by darkarmani 4473 days ago
> Such a HUGE volume of open source code is written in JS.

That's because there is a separate module for everything! Want to run "mkdir -p"? There is a module "mkdirp" just for doing that.

If you implemented every command as a separate library, of course there is going to be a lot of code out there.