An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools

Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by degraafc on Saturday October 26, 2019 @09:32AM (#21363548)

I don't think it says much about the tools themselves though, it just makes sense when you look at the author's GitHub and see a bunch of Rust projects.

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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by epage on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:18AM (#21364158)

I think there are a couple of relevant factors

- Can be distributed as a single binary, not requiring an interpreter and virtual environment. - Being more fun to make a hobby tool in due to minimal footguns compared to C/C++. - Really good dependency management and build tool making it easy to compose these CLIs out of powerful building blocks (at east for Rust). For example, ripgrep is broken up into a lot of packages that you can compose together to make your own custom tool.

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Re:An Illustrated Guide to Useful Command Line Tools by gameswithgo on Saturday October 26, 2019 @03:29PM (#21365671)

CLI tools have pretty strong needs to be self contained exes that start up fast. That rules out a lot of the more popular languages.

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