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by slowin·3d ago·view on hn ↗
> The source is prominently linked: https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb

This is how I found out it's a javascript project and didn't install it. I only even bothered to do that because I actually wanted to try it. I'm just saying it would be awesome to have that right there next to the curl command.

> Around 40% of Linux CLI tools are written in interpreted languages.

And I prefer not to use those. Everything I said for Javascript holds for Python, Perl, Ruby... as well.

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Using JS for anything finance related is incredibly naive
I think the point was that even Bash is interpreted.
I definitely do not think Bash scripts should be distributed.