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Comment by flohofwoe | Hacker News Reader

To summarize my feelings: Shit!

Deno's ability to import directly from a package registry or even git repo in a standalone TS script without requiring a package.json or similar 'meta-data' file was actually really nice for shell scripting stuff. AFAIK node.js still can't do anything similar?

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`zx --install` will give you this. It's quite handy and enjoyable generally for shell scripting in ts/js. https://google.github.io/zx/cli#install

if you're not locked to javascript you could use python with pep-723[1] to declare inline dependencies

1: https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/

I just migrated that project away from Python to TS :D (cries in corner).

So you prefer scripting in deno/JavaScript over python?

I heavily prefer scripting in Typescript over Python (nowadays at least). I'm also not a big fan of how Python is developing since around the 2 => 3 compatibility break tbh.

Python package management is a horror show.

uv means it’s fine now, at least on the consumer side.

    mise use uv
    uv install

this coming from a long time devtools engineer

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