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But users don't need to run those, right?

Just contributors.

(Unless you have some complicated install to perform which is good to avoid for multiple reasons.)

Contributors might span across OS's, so this tool might still make sense

I guess, but if contributors have to install nodejs already, they might as well install cygwin if they're on Windows. All other platforms that I can think of are POSIX shell-compliant.

I don’t disagree, they should definitely just use WSL anyway for their own peace of mind. Most node tools nowadays seem to be written for macOS first, something I would have never thought would happen 10 years ago, given how popular Windows computers were “for real work”

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