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I'd rather have people write Free software in JS than not write any at all.

isn't that what it's there for? node lets you use javascript just like any other scripting language; you wouldn't have blinked at this being done in perl or ruby

Yupp. I agree. And writing something cross platform for the terminal kinda sux. I have given some thought to porting it to something else, but am not sure what that would be. Any suggestions? Requirements: a nice language to work with, cross platform, easy to install the executable(s)

You should give Golang a shot. It checks all your requirements.

Yes, I have looked at that, and it is tempting. But you still have to worry about cross compiling and distribution. Right?

Cross compiling is very easy since Go 1.5, just add some environment variables before running `go build`, which can be put in a Makefile.

Distribution is a little trickier since there is no package manager ala npm, however it's a little easier in that you don't need anything except for the binary. For people who have Go installed they just `go get REPO` and it's installed, for others they can just wget the binary into their bin.