This is really cool. I understand why all the front end tooling is written in JS but it really is a pain to deal with in my experience, especially when it comes to building and deploying. Since they're essentially just scripts you have to also install the right versions of node and npm and use npm to install the dependencies (and watch out for native extensions!). It's fairly tedious to get it all right, whenever I try it, since I'm not a pure frontend dev, and things have always changed since the last time I did it. But the promise of this is just dropping in a binary and having it all work!
I actually like JS as a programming language for the web, I just don't like scripting languages in general for command line tools.
I actually like JS as a programming language for the web, I just don't like scripting languages in general for command line tools.