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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by jsd1982 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:32PM (#31334445)
This is essentially what I was referring to with my comment below. If you can improve the installation experience such that I don't have to care that you developed with node.js, so much the better. If I were a node.js developer I surely wouldn't want my global package name space polluted like that.

npm is not for end users.

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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by ushakov on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:38PM (#31334492)
the solution is not write CLIs in JavaScript, unless you have a JS-library that you also want to make available as a CLI

packaging Node in a binary won't solve the problem of JavaScript's plagued ecosystem and in fact i'd rather prefer to be able to mitigate the issues/update packages myself rather than waiting for a new binary to release

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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by jsd1982 on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @08:43PM (#31334505)
I agree with your conclusion to not write cli tools in Javascript.

However, packaging node in a binary is pretty much what electron does today, albeit with a GUI.

Regardless, it's not a problem I wish to spend any effort to solve since it's not my problem and I've (we've) already dismissed the premise (writing CLI tools in js) lol.

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Re:Show HN: A Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the ter... by spoiler on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @05:05AM (#31337490)
Another option is using Deno!
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