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# ![YavaScript logo](meta/assets/logo.png)
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YavaScript is a cross-platform bash-like script runner and repl which is distributed as a single statically-linked program, weighing in at about 7MB. Scripts can be written in [JavaScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript) or [JS-related languages](#languages).
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YavaScript is a cross-platform bash-like script runner and repl which is distributed as a single statically-linked program, weighing in at about 5MB. Scripts can be written in [JavaScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript) or [JS-related languages](#languages).
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> YavaScript is the name of the program. YavaScript is not a new language. YavaScript uses normal JavaScript.
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## Why?
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YavaScript exists as an alternative to bash scripts. Instead of writing scripts using shell syntax and running them with bash, you write them in JavaScript and run them with YavaScript.
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At only ~7MB and with no dependencies (not even Node.js), YavaScript is easy to install or include in a Docker image. As such, it's suitable for use in all the places you would use shell scripts now. It's a great fit for those sort of "environment-level infrastructure" scripts that every Git repo ends up needing, like "build the app", "pull the latest docker images", "install/use the correct versions of languages and tools", etc.
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At only ~5MB and with no dependencies (not even Node.js), YavaScript is easy to install or include in a Docker image. As such, it's suitable for use in all the places you would use shell scripts now. It's a great fit for those sort of "environment-level infrastructure" scripts that every Git repo ends up needing, like "build the app", "pull the latest docker images", "install/use the correct versions of languages and tools", etc.
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YavaScript has built-in APIs for all the things you'd normally want to do in a bash script, such as:
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