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ZeroCool2u ◴[25 Jun 25 13:39 UTC] No.44377226[source]▶
Ugh, I really wish this had been written in Go or Rust. Just something that produces a single binary executable and doesn't require you to install a runtime like Node.
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qsort ◴[25 Jun 25 13:50 UTC] No.44377341[source]▶
Projects like this have to update frequently, having a mechanism like npm or pip or whatever to automatically handle that is probably easier. It's not like the program is doing heavy lifting anyway, unless you're committing outright programming felonies there shouldn't be any issues on modern hardware.

It's the only argument I can think of, something like Go would be goated for this use case in principle.

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1. mpeg ◴[25 Jun 25 15:40 UTC] No.44378557[source]▶
You'd think that, but a globally installed npm package is annoying to update, as you have to do it manually and I very rarely need to update other npm global packages so at least personally I always forget to do it.
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2. drewbitt ◴[26 Jun 25 01:00 UTC] No.44383270[source]▶
I used to also have outdated versions until I used mise. `mise use -g npm:@google/gemini-cli` and now `mise up` will update it. cargo, pip etc too.