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Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon

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Post by bradknowles »

sneak wrote: post #23
conroydave wrote: post #10

i need this except for delivery windows on wholefoods and amazon fresh

Instacart and Postmates still seem to work, I'm told. (I won't outsource mortal danger to someone poorer than I simply because they need the money more, and I don't want to give Instacart any of my business since they got busted stealing their delivery staff's tips, but those are your options if you want them.)

InstaCart deliveries are pushed out to the one week limit, and that’s assuming you can get anything at all.

Deliveries from all sources are getting hard to come by.

Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon

#36

Post by jspash »

I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out.

But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script?

Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job?

I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages for this type of thing? I suppose I still don't see it outside of the browser environment but maybe it's time to change that view.

Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon

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Post by arrmn »

jspash wrote: post #36

I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages fo…

Nearly all public repos of the devloper are using mainly JS, so I assume he's a JS dev and thus just uses the tools he knows the best.

Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon

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Post by jdellinger »

jspash wrote: post #36

I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages fo…

While I generally agree that you should use the best tool for the job, for small and simple scripts I see nothing wrong with picking a language your comfortable with.

I wonder, why do you think python is a better alternative? I would understand bash since it is dependency free, but I don't see any advantage for python vs. nodejs

Re: Show HN: Bungholio – Get text messages when a product is available on Amazon

#40

Post by sneak »

jspash wrote: post #36

I'm not trying to troll, so please hear me out. But has Javascript become so universally liked that it's the go-to tool for quick one-off scripts like this? Is it really much better or easier that you would choose it over, say Python or just a shell script? Or is it that Javascript happens to be the best tool for this particular job? I guess what I'm asking is, do most people reach for JS/Node over other languages fo…

There are many programmers working today who only know Javascript. I can’t speak to whether that’s the situation with OP or not, but it is common to see tools that I personally would write in Python being written today in JS, even sometimes by experienced polyglot programmers. I don’t know about “most”, but it is quite common. It surprised me a bit too, the first time I encountered it.

I don’t think it has much to do with “liked” or “best tool for the job” as much as it is simply “prevalent” or “popular”.

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