alt Hacker NewsI think there are two philosophies here:
1) JavaScript must stay in the box (aka in the browser).
2) JavaScript as a general purpose programming language.
While I can absolutely understand 1), I have had wanted to access the filesystem via JavaScript, just as I do via ruby or python, for local use only. After I googled for a while, they would say that this is not possible unless one uses npm/node. I think this shows that there are use cases here and the "default" JavaScript, aka 1), does not cover these. I do not like JavaScript, but based on my own use cases, I actually favour 2) far more than 1). So from that point of view, being able to access UEFI can also be useful. So why not.
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Try webkitdirectory file attribute for browser access to the file system.
> I have had wanted to access the filesystem via JavaScript, just as I do via ruby or python
There are some (limited) ways to do so now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
As for (1) vs (2), it’s not really an issue of JavaScript at all. The main question is, do you want to build something that runs in a browser? If you’re building a web app, you’ll have to use the sandboxed APIs (and probably JavaScript). If you don’t care about the runtime, yeah, you can use Node or Bun or Deno (or use another language altogether).