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Re:Jsc: My New Best Friend by brundolf on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:46PM (#28309171)
The big difference is that it comes preinstalled. If you had a whole company on MacBooks but not all of them had Node installed, and you wanted to distribute a script written in JavaScript, this could be handy

Fairly niche, but not useless

I could also imagine some sort of Electron-alternative using the builtin JS interpreter for system stuff alongside the builtin webview for the UI

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Re:Jsc: My New Best Friend by amelius on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:40AM (#28313561)
> The big difference is that it comes preinstalled. If you had a whole company on MacBooks but not all of them had Node installed, and you wanted to distribute a script written in JavaScript, this could be handy

Except when Apple decides to remove it from the default setup.

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