However, why do we need to write shell commands in java script? I keep hearing about this new fancy systems language called rust which should be good enough for most projects. Why do we insist on using the same one language everywhere?
https://github.com/aisola/go-coreutils - in Go.
https://github.com/search?l=Nimrod&q=coreutils&type=Reposito... - in Nim (didn't seem to take off)
You know how people write a to-do list, or a forum, or a blog to better learn a language? Some people write coreutils.
Things seem to live on here:
"Why do we insist on using the same one language everywhere?" Who is this "we" you're talking about? Where is this "insistence"? It's not like there is some cabal out there that is organizing a campaign to rewrite everything in JS and also delete everything else. What does it matter to you that people started a new project, that re-implements functionality of a dear, favorite project of yours, without taking resources away from that dear, favorite project? These people, who are only wasting their own time, who would have never worked on your dear, beloved project anyway? If you don't want to use JS, just don't. Stop reading posts about JS.
Because, yeah, that would be an awful thing to happen to shell utils.