alt Hacker News> When someone says "write it in POSIX shell for portability," they mean well.
> POSIX is a specification. Not a program. The thing that actually runs your script is bash, dash, ash, ksh, yash, or one of a dozen others.
“When someone says ‘write it in ECMAScript,’ they mean well.
“ECMAScript is specification. Not a program. The thing that actually runs your script is Node.js, Bun, Deno, Rhino, or one of a dozen others.”
See how silly that sounds?
No one says "Let's write ECMAScript for portability". If someone did, I would probably be writing about that too.