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There are no common tools in nodejs, no system ships with node. I only have node on my production servers, because Rails needs a JS engine and node is fast.

Actually i assume nearly every techie tries to avoid installing hundreds of different interpreters with even more dependencies just to run tiny scripts which could be replaced by a smart shell one liner.




Often techies sudo apt install packages and these packages might have a nodejs/python/ruby as a dependency.

Why python/ruby would be ok but nodejs is not?


Python ships with the system. I am not aware of common Ruby scripts. I am a Ruby dev so I use a exception on that.




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