What is the best language/framework to write CLIs in 2018?

Re:What is the best language/framework to write CLIs in 2018? by vgy7ujm on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @07:01AM (#17020077)

Perl has decades worth of high quality libraries to do heavy lifting. https://metacpan.org You can get away with easy scripting for creating significant programs.

UNIX commandline and Perl is a match made in heaven.

Using Golang will demand significantly more effort when doing more complex stuff but will give you concurrency, easier deploys/multi-platform support and better performance if doing CPU intensive stuff.

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Re:What is the best language/framework to write CLIs in 2018? by vgy7ujm on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @07:03AM (#17020087)

I use Go for what I previously maybe used C for.

Thanks to the quick compile time and good tooling Go almost feels like a scripting language when developing but especially for UNIXy stuff it can't replace Perl for me.

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