[HN Gopher] Jsc: My New Best Friend
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       Jsc: My New Best Friend
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-08-25 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (furbo.org)
        
       | mshockwave wrote:
       | Sounds like the equivalent of the `d8` tool in V8 Javascript
       | engine. Not sure if `d8` shipped with Chromium/Chrome though.
        
       | js2 wrote:
       | Not in front of a keyboard, but does tr not work?
       | echo "something in turkish" | LC_ALL=tr_TR tr "[:lower:]"
       | "[:upper:]"
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Sounds a lot like NodeJS.
        
         | cmgxyz wrote:
         | Yeah. This is a cool factoid, but for this kind of thing I
         | usually just hop over to whatever browser tab is open and hit
         | F12. If it really needs to be in the terminal, I'd reach for
         | Node, or Deno, or JQ if it's anything to do with manipulating
         | or interrogating JSON.
        
         | qsort wrote:
         | Yeah, there isn't really any reason to use it over something
         | like nodejs, especially since it doesn't look like the code is
         | portable (e.g. print instead of console.log, etc.).
         | 
         | It's not like it's the only scripting language available
         | either, OSX comes with ruby, python2, python3 and perl by
         | default.
        
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